What chocolatestigmata said, plus the fact that he's off-and-on unapproachable.  She never quite knows where she stands with him or if he's going to want to have sex with her at any given point in time, and she's still inexperienced enough to think that the thrill that she gets from him responding to her when he does…

What chocolatestigmata said, plus the fact that he's off-and-on unapproachable.  She never quite knows where she stands with him or if he's going to want to have sex with her at any given point in time, and she's still inexperienced enough to think that the thrill that she gets from him responding to her when he does…

Here is the simplest possible summation of my argument:

My overall position is that men who refer to women as "females" are creepy and have issues.  Generally speaking, those issues have to do with how they view women's humanity.

Oh, there's a filter, but it gets more subtle.  I could probably still pick out which was which even with the Kill Bill bleep (great analogy, by the way), but I'd have to hear tone, look at body language, and listen to more of what they were saying.

No, it's not the same semi-willful non-empathy.  If you don't think certain individuals are human beings, it makes it a whole lot easier to treat them as property.  If you acknowledge that they're human beings but consider them lesser than you, you mistreat them in a variety of specifically human ways: denying them…

It's not limited to gender—it pops up with race as well—but it's inherently sexist when it involves gender because of the long, nasty history of defining women as lesser than men or not even human.  That is *not* to say that being female is inherently lesser, but a whole lot of people in power certainly feel that way…

I get that you're confused, and I apologize if I'm not being clear.

"is supposed to be used" according to whom?  Your use of the passive voice is rather telling.  The standard use of "female" in English is as an adjective, not a noun.

As far as your plumber example goes: all plumbers are people, by definition.  It's a human profession.  Humanity is implicit in this case, because the only plumbers that exist are people.  Trees, cats, and fruit flies can't be plumbers.

No, it is inherent to the word "female" when it's used as a noun rather than an adjective.  It's not a question of technical accuracy, though that is also an issue.  Our society uses "female" as a synonym for "woman" or "girl" precisely because our society is sexist.

Toldja.

Men's Rights Activists.

At the risk of sounding overly pedantic or precisely the sort of angry feminist a lot of commenters here are dismissing or making fun of, the word does matter.  If those creepy guys were saying "female persons," they'd at least be acknowledging that I was a person.  They'd be abstracting it out in a weird way that…

Hang out on some MRA forums and you'll start noticing it with a quickness.

It's more hard experience than it is "actively seeking to be offended."  When you see a pattern of word choice combined with behavior over and over again, you start paying close attention.  Particularly when you might get into a car or accept a drink from someone who refers to himself as a person and refers to you by…

It can still be done, though.  See: Gone With the Wind, which would have been something like 128 hours long if filmed completely faithfully.  (Okay, so they still cheated with the run time.) 

I don't think that I've ever gotten so attached to a TV show.   About the only thing keeping me going right now is the knowledge that it won't devolve a la True Blood.

The most specialest TV show there is.

Israel has clearly seen Cake Wrecks.