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Pet peeve: I loathe when people say "men and females", or "I need a female perspective", or "men have different X to females".
"Males and females/females and males" is fine.
"Men and women/women and men" also fine.
"Guys, gals, and non-binary pals" also fine, and it rhymes!
Females when using men in the same sentence is fucking gross and icky.
It reeks of neck beard
Neck beards do in fact reek π
Anytime I hear a guy say females out of context I think of the ferengi.
I use female a bit when discussing anatomy, but that's the correct use imo. Eg, the female pelvis has a bigger hole in the floor for child birth, which is probably true of most mammals that have vaginal births.
I now feel the need to look up hyaena pelvis because of the not vaginal thing ...
Youβre better off not knowing
I want to know who stole the missing bit from my Y chromosome.
I don't think it was stolen, it's just sloppy workmanship. Some guy on the assembly line bunged everything together haphazardly, and at the end had an extra | left over and just shrugged and sent it out anyway. You should probably be grateful, some further down the assembly line got a whole bunch of extra X's when he decided to whack a bunch of those leftover |'s together to get rid of them.
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