On 03/25/2016 03:40 PM, ag0aep6g wrote:
On 25.03.2016 15:56, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
On 03/17/2016 01:02 PM, ag0aep6g wrote:
"A female" sounds like you're
talking about an animal.
Not to a native english speaker.
I call bullshit on that. I don't have any strong evidence, and I'm not
even a native English speaker myself, but I simply don't buy it.
Here's the first Google hit I got for "animal documentary male female":
https://youtu.be/kY7SlH3rzhQ?t=430
Didn't take long to find a spot where they talk about "the males" and
"the females", because they always do in animal documentaries.
Note how the speaker switches from "male"/"female" for kangaroos to
"man"/"woman" for humans. That's what I'm talking about.
Of course they switch like that: It's an animal documentary, it helps to
have an extra verbal cue for clarification when they switch between
talking about animals vs humans. "Man"/"Woman" implies "Human".
"Male"/"Female" are more generic than that. That's why they switch. Not
because "Male"/"Female" implies "Non-Human" (it doesn't), but because
"Man"/"Woman" DOES imply "Human" - an obviously important distinction in
an animal documentary.
Regardless of that, the whole matter is dead simple, though many are too
blinded by fear of offending to see the blatantly obvious:
Any "man" here who TRULY DOES get offended (and not just thinks he
should get offended, or that other guys might be offended) by being
called "A *MALE*" can go ahead and argue about "a woman" being
offensive. Anyone else needs to drop their paranoid, self-contradictory
bullshit.
