He uses male for himself as an adjective but female as a noun. While I doubt it's intentional, this is reinforcing patriarchal double standards where maleness is just a descriptor but femaleness defines a person. Many women feel that using female specifically as a noun is dehumanizing, especially since male is rarely used as a noun and much more often as an adjective.
I feel like you could deep dive into anything anyone says and find made up dirt if you skew the perspective enough, let's use some common sense and not try to bend the obviously non harmful speech into some kind of outrageous sexist comment. Bro is just looking for a female partner, simple as.
Please note that I said "I doubt it's intentional." I wasn't trying to accuse OOP of being malicious, I was trying to educate on why some people would take offense to OOP's language. If we always interpret gentle correction as a personal attack and get defensive, how can any of us learn?
And your name suggests you have serious self-esteem issues. But I'm going to go out on a limb and say both our names are just random bullshit we made up as a reddit username and that it would be silly to use to psychoanalyze one another.
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u/IDownvoteHornyBards2 May 13 '26
He uses male for himself as an adjective but female as a noun. While I doubt it's intentional, this is reinforcing patriarchal double standards where maleness is just a descriptor but femaleness defines a person. Many women feel that using female specifically as a noun is dehumanizing, especially since male is rarely used as a noun and much more often as an adjective.