Female as an adjective: acceptable, except when used unnecessarily to suggest their being female is an “other” category or otherwise seems irrelevant (e.g. “I went to the female podiatriast to get my ingrown toenail taken care of” or “I got cut off by a female driver on my way to work.”)
Female as a noun: unacceptable, except in descriptive reports or scientific/medical references where the use of “female” can essentially be short for “female subject”, (e.g. “white female, five foot seven, blonde, with a tattoo on right forearm” or “the female of the species tends to be larger than the males…”)
Basically, adjective: yes, when relevant
Noun: no, unless your are specifically supposed to by policy or convention.
Yeah, mate you shouldn’t really bother calling out downvotes or upvotes.we all vote for our personal reasons and you won’t be able to infer that at all from a single ± 1.
Statistics does also often have reasons to utilise male and female, rather than man or woman. If their sample size is large enough, then further categorisation might make sense, but ultimately it depends on what the statistics are about and whether it’s related to biological features (male/female) or social features (man/woman/non-binary)
Fairly simple:
Female as an adjective: acceptable, except when used unnecessarily to suggest their being female is an “other” category or otherwise seems irrelevant (e.g. “I went to the female podiatriast to get my ingrown toenail taken care of” or “I got cut off by a female driver on my way to work.”)
Female as a noun: unacceptable, except in descriptive reports or scientific/medical references where the use of “female” can essentially be short for “female subject”, (e.g. “white female, five foot seven, blonde, with a tattoo on right forearm” or “the female of the species tends to be larger than the males…”)
Basically, adjective: yes, when relevant
Noun: no, unless your are specifically supposed to by policy or convention.
@seejaypeeko@lemmy.world and @lemmylemmylemmy@sh.itjust.works, why did you downvote @TheDoozer@lemmy.world’s comment. I found it very helpful and informative. Do you disagree with the explanation?
*Edit: upon further investigation, seejaypeeko’s account is 3 years and 3 months old and has no posts or comments. They sure do like to vote tho.
Who hurt you
It is weird that there’s people who only vote and never post or comment.
Oh, it’s actually very common. 90% of users never post or comment at all. Welcome to the 10%!
Why even make an account then?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
They may like pressing the up/down button. Personalized feed. Being able to block people/instances, etc.
Yeah, mate you shouldn’t really bother calling out downvotes or upvotes.we all vote for our personal reasons and you won’t be able to infer that at all from a single ± 1.
Also it’s just rude
Statistics does also often have reasons to utilise male and female, rather than man or woman. If their sample size is large enough, then further categorisation might make sense, but ultimately it depends on what the statistics are about and whether it’s related to biological features (male/female) or social features (man/woman/non-binary)