It's equally, or more, correct to say "female/male people". It's just like "poor people" is ok, but "the poors" makes you sound like an asshat. Including "people" makes the difference.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Sure, like almost every time I've ever used the word "female" it is in the context of "my male friends X, while my female friends Y." And yet, while that is ok according to your comment, every fucking time I catch flak enough that now I say "my male friends X while my woman friends Y" instead, which sounds so dumb but nobody can get mad at me so fuck em.

Including "people" makes all the difference to you, but others will be needlessly offended at such an innocuous statement due to not fully understanding whatever they copy their angry opinions from.

[–] Nikko882 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If someone gets angry at "my female friends" that sounds like a them problem, tbh. I've never met anyone that cared about that use, but your mileage might vary, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I have unfortunately. Hell there are people in this very thread saying that it's never acceptable to refer to a human using the word "female" outside of a scientific/medical context, which would include my usage as "not ok."

[–] Madison420 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Call me sexist but the word woman itself irks me, it's one of those words that no matter how many times I write it it still looks wrong. It's not a hate thing for me it's just a strange looking word that I'd rather not write.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Honestly I kinda feel you on that, I'd default to "ladies" as I see it as the opposite of my typically used "guys," (or would that be "Dolls?" lol, theater joke) but some of them don't like that either. "Woman" is basically the only one I haven't seen someone complain about yet.