But will it be full of musical cues that they won’t be able to keep the rights to?

As someone who teaches social science courses on gender, I will say that I get the "females" and "males" language a lot on student papers. I've tried to explain it to them—oh, how I've tried!—but I think some of them are trying so hard to use formal language that this female/male language becomes some sort of a tic.

I read some comment (can't remember who wrote it) that made a really good point, which is that people use "females" to sound scientific when they make generalizations about women. Like, they're acting like these things they have supposedly observed about women are the result of biological essentialism. "Females are…

Um, I feel uncomfortable for different reasons. I am cisgendered but queer and dress androgynously. I'm totally secure in my gender identity, but I just don't feel totally comfortable with that label sometimes.

I usually just say something like, "I know. Koalas, am I right?" And then when they look at me like I'm insane I continue with, "Oh, I thought I was allowed to insert my own noun - like Mad Libs. Were you talking about something else?"