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I'm so tired of hearing people call women "females". You know what we call females? Female animals. In psychology, in biology, if you're calling something a female you're either making clear it isn't human or you're dehumanizing it with clinical-speak or because you're afraid of offending the GLBT crowd by reducing womanhood to biological fact.
It's just a little gripe, but whenever I hear someone refer to me or someone else as a "female" as if this is a term of respect I get mildly offended. It makes me feel like I'm in a box of hamsters or a zoo (we keep the females over here.....).
