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    [–]adungitit 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

    That people calling cables male or female makes it valid to claim that actual male people are female and vice versa? That's quite a leap in logic you're making, there.

    And you realise that the only reason why the connectors are called male and female is that they resemble male and female sex organs, right? So, I guess cables are transphobic?

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      [–]adungitit 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

      the words male and female have more than one meaning

      Yes, there are casual meanings, and there are actual, real meanings that correspond to reality. No-one in their right mind believes cables are actually male or female, even though they might call them that, just as no-one believes that a dinosaur toy is a real dinosaur just because they call it a dinosaur, or that their pet is literally their child just because they call them that.

      Why would this be transphobic?

      It defines male and female according to sex, not gendersouls. Admittedly there are plenty of examples of sexism/gendersouls being casually used in this way so I'm not sure if you intentionally didn't want to use them or recognised how sexist they are when they are used.