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Female is a verb, the noun for adult, human female is woman. It's dehumanizing and objectifying to take the noun used to describe women away and reduce us to the verb. We have nouns that describe many mammals as adult (animal) female and adult (animal) male - like sow, queen, heifer or bull, tom, boar. Not because those animals identify with the social role of the sexed animal, but because it's a shortcut to describing the biological category in question.