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Man who calls women "females" hopes to one day be allowed within 500 meters of one (chaser.com.au)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

It's not even clinical, it's used as a shortening of "female patient" or "female subject" or whatever, especially when lady or woman (which refer only to adult female humans) aren't universally clear, but people who use it as a noun outside of those contexts are just using nonstandard English, and generally socially inacceptable nonstandard English at that.