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
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u/twolake68 Plants and/or Zombies 19h ago
Depends on the context
Female is more of an adjective than Woman/Girl is
So like, "my female boss" or "my boss who is a girl"
The second one still feels better probably because of connotation but still