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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] 15 points 8 months ago (3 children)

That's what we were instructed to use to refer to a subset of our platoon-mates while working, in those rare cases where it made a difference. One of my DS, an MP from Halifax, would absolutely tear a strip off you if she heard you say 'girl' or 'woman', in barely comprehensible English out from under that scary red Beret, and you knew the woe was coming.

[–] AquaTofana 1 points 8 months ago

I just made a comment about this too! The "male" and "female" vernacular is alive and well in the US military as well!

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