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[–][deleted] 29 insightful - 1 fun29 insightful - 0 fun30 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

That’s because the word woman was never used as a gender based word but denoted sex class. Always. This whole thing that woman means gender extra is nonsense. Historically it has never been used to mean hair and makeup or feelings.

[–]MezozoicGay 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

the word woman was never used as a gender based word but denoted sex class

Word "woman" means "adult human female". While "female" means female of any species, not only humans.

In our language (ukrainian "самка людини") calling woman as female is seen as being explicitly rude. "Human Female" here sounds like you are reducing woman to an animalistic traits, like "Dog Female" and similar ones, it can be used only to mock person or to hurt them. And only use of "female" or "male" is mostly when jockingly saying "alpha female/male" and that is it.

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Calling women female isn’t reducing women to anything but acknowledging women as a sex class.

[–]MezozoicGay 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In English I know it is fine to say like that (I still prefer to call women as women, thought, and transwomen as transwomen, instead of female for women and women for "everyone"), but I was speaking about our language. In our language it does, because we have special word for sex for humans, and different one for animals. And in general we have a lot of such words that are same for all animals, but for humans there special word, like "human is above animal instincts". So calling either man or woman with that is considered as very rude, almost like just calling someone "a cattle". And we have no words for gender at all. That is why in our country people were very sceptical about transgenders, until american trans lobby poured a ton of money into our trans groups and they started promoting transitioning as "fix for gay people" (and country is mildly homophobic in big cities and very homophobic in small cities), so they are more accepted now.