Lawful would be more "conventional" identities like simply "non binary", while chaotic is shit like xenogenders and such, the things that make anti-woke/sjw people stay up at night.
Assigned female at birth and assigned male at birth
But you'd only ask that to a non binary person and... Well if youre asking that chances are you wanna mentally assign them the label of "masculine" or "feminine" which is the opposite of what labels they wanna use
there are some contexts where it's reasonable to ask, but they're usually pretty self-evident, and often more applicable in person - like checking before you womansplain periods to someone who knows how they work, lmao. then again, in person, you usually don't need to ask bc it's often just kinda obvious.
Simple: the Transformers brand was made by humans who do have the concept of gender.
If we're talking in-universe, then "gender" doesn't really exist as a concept and "male" and "female" are just what a cybertronian uses to refer to themselves as to make it easier for other races to understand.
As for their amount, believe me, there HAVE been attempts at explaining why there's so little female transformers compared to male ones before without giving any of them a gender but that's a whole other can of worms and all of them have been.... Let's just say really really bad.
Short answer is more men than women enjoy transformers. Not saying its 100% but id say its like 60% to 70%. At least thats how I put it. Could be wrong though.
It's usually weird when used as a noun more than as an adjective. If you heard someone say "look at that female over there" or something you'd probably find it weird
Yes. Using "male and female" instead of "men and women" is like using "humans" instead of "people", or using "sodium chloride" instead of "salt". It's still weird, but in a different way
I feel like we really should separate "human" from "people" though, as one is describing a species, and the other a societal thing
All humans are people, but not all people are humans
All known fully accepted people are humans, but there are some humans who argue that animals such as Orcas and Dolphins are intelligent enough that they should be considered people despite not being human
And that's not even getting into the possibility of intelligent aliens and how we'd also have to refer to them as people despite them not being humans (I'll admit to being unrealistically optimistic here)
Why tho? If you're a science guy you know Male and Female refer to the reproductive biology of most species. You don't interact with the things that make a person Male or Female on a regular basis. You interact with the social aspect of being a Human Male or Female, for which we have alternative words.
I was a part of the American Imperial War Machine and thats how it was referred to and the habit kind of stuck around. I didn’t think too hard about it, but I use whatever pronouns people prefer.
yes. not a bad guy but it's still gonna be off-putting for people, because the majority of folks who call women "females" are incels or misogynists. IMO it's worth trying to change the habit, but not worth actually worrying about, you feel?
I say male and female a lot because I work in marketing and that's how demographics are presented.
It does slip out in the real word and I remember the incel connection and I do have to correct myself, but I can imagine that a lot of people in my profession make the same mistake without knowing the connection.
I still think saying "my boss who is a girl" is still weird cus it implies she is younger and childish, kinda saying you are still above her even thou she is your boss
Just say "my boss, she did this and that", context clue is fine, if they didn't caught that just say "she, not he". Idk, even saying woman boss is still weird cus it implies every boss is a man if not said otherwise
I have always said that when people refer to a woman as "girl" it is not done so in the "boy/girl" sense but in the "guy/girl" sense (no one uses gal). Obviously context matters and some people do use it to infantilize, but I would say that most uses are not done with that intention.
This is how I use it. When I ask my wife about her friends, I'll ask 'How are the girls' or some variant of. Just like When I say I'm gonna go play golf with the guys.
My biggest pet peeve is when people use the words male and female as nouns when talking about people. I understand it in a professional context like a hospital, but in basically any other it just sounds dehumanizing.
Are you a native english speaker, because as a non-native one it somehow sounds better to me to say "female prime minister" than "woman prime minister" even though it might be less correct
The first example you gave sounds better, because it’s the only one of the two that is grammatically correct, because it specifically uses the word “female” as an adjective, where as the word “woman” is exclusively a noun.
I am not a native English speaker, but I am fluent and use it as much as my mother’s tongue.
Those are hardcore weirdo incels. I find that the people who use "females" are the soft incels: they don't use the terminology or make 4chan posts about how they saw a woman and got SO ANGRY, but you can frequently tell there's a bit of a tilt in the way they view gender equality.
Maybe it's more accurate to say "alpha males" say females. I think of 4chan incels as all in balls to walls haters/sad sacks who would use more aggressively mean words
Cus it kinda dehumanise the woman you are talking about, reducing her into her reproductive organ and making her seem like an animal (cus we usually say female when describing other animal species). It also implies that her thoughts and emotions are animalistic, so her opinion doesn't matter as much
The issue is when you use the word female or male as a noun it can be demeaning or dehumanizing. Like referring to someone as it.
The confusion is that using the word female or male as an adjective is totally fine and people who get upset about this are either confused or are just looking for rage bait.
Consider:
Look at that female over there, by the males.
Sounds like you are talking about a bunch of animals or something. But if you change it to an adjective instead:
Look at that female lumberjack over there, by the male dancers.
I don’t use male and female in dehumanizing ways, and I still also use man or woman and girl and boy. Whenever I use one, I use the other, I don’t go “man and female” or something like that.
But I do now understand how it can in fact sound bad
Honestly this thing confuses the hell out of me as a non native, I hear WOMEN (see I did it right) call themselves female all the time, in my own language we also have of course female and woman and its really interchangeable, so sometimes while I'm speaking quickly it does drop.. but theres never any particular intent behind it!
At the same time though I do also see the classic manosphere chuds using it to belittle women, so I understand why it would be an issue, I just wish words in general weren't so finnicky, it should be more about the context and intent, but its not that simple I'm sure
Yeah I agree, seeing some examples people are doing its absolutely something I never said even by accident, so perhaps I just miss-understood what people complained about, because what you said there would instantly sound wrong and weird to me even as a non-native
The rule for using Male and Female is: if you could just as easily be talking about an animal, it's a way of dehumanizing the subject of the statement.
"Those females over there": Female what, Sheep? Oh, Female Humans. Luckily we have a word for that. Just say Women, dawg.
"Female Teacher": animals can't be Teachers, so you're fine.
"Females" is used more colloquially because misogyny is baked into society, but it goes both ways. Being called "a Male" is gross. I am not interchangeable with a Ram.
so i'm a a tad neurodivergent (slightly autistic, adhd, ocd lmao) and i almost exclusively used male and female tags for whatever reason in a casual setting. think of me as the slightly odd guy that pronounces words painfully correctly, has a wide vocabulary, and doesn't get sarcasm at face value.
i only just recently got told by my gf how weird that was, in the nicest way she could haha. i still think in terms of saying male and female, but my friends have told me they can "see my brain churning" everytime i correct myself and opt towards saying man, woman, girl, boy etc.
i'm not sure why i have that particular "thing" with those tags, but it's been with me ever since i was a kid (read lots of books i suppose) and it's kind of amusing now when i catch myself mid-sentence.
Yeah your not understanding the issue. There's nothing wrong with the word female. But if someone conspicuously refuses to say woman when it'd be usual to, there's an extremely high chance they have weird opinions about women.
"The driver of the car was female officer" <- fine.
"Why won't any females date me" <- weirdo
Tbh this is a litmus test, and it's surprising how accurate this is. When I hear it unironically used in everyday conversation, I use it as a qualifier and see what other forms of shibboleth are used by them to see if they're incels or not.
There are three types of people who use “female” instead of woman or girl - medical folks, military grunts, and incels. Only one of those groups is respectable.
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