. . . there's only one type of valentine that's okay to hand to your special chum this year . . .

Impressing my gentlemen coworkers with my smooth rhythms and stylish outfits....

One time my friend, who worked for her dad but also other places said "Mark, I have a crush on my boss and I don't know what to do."

But if I'm successful (rarely), It goes like this:

Hey, when I party with my hot male coworkers, it goes like this, in this exact sequence:

Don't get that fact mixed up with the narrative here. You should already be familiar with what the article is trying to do.

Right, because they have to stick with the "we were given the description that he was 20 years old" excuse to shoot him (ETA: as if that sufficiently justified it). ARGHHHHHHHH. I just can't with that story. It makes my heart hurt and my brain explode.

I think context matters a LOT and in the case of Tamir Rice, I see no reason not to use the word "boy." He wasn't even a teenager. If we want to really parse this I'd say in general 13 is probably around the time where you go from "boy" or "girl" to "young man" or "young woman." So they could also refer to him as a…

I agree. Obviously Pope Alexander's experience is uniquely their own, but my experience mirrors yours. I've known several men who call women "females" and they definitely do not refer to men as "males".

That made me so sad. IIRC, it was the head (president? chief? IDK the title) of the Cleveland police officers' union I saw in an interview who also did this extremely deliberately. I had the distinct feeling he was trying to avoid using the words "boy" or "child" or "kid" at all costs. He certainly couldn't have…

I was wondering if it's more because a lot of the comments on "males" and "females" are relying on a lot of pseudoscientific b.s., and they assume that using scientific terminology will elevate otherwise spurious and largely unsupported claims about gender roles. Does "male" get used outside of discussions like that?

I will point out that there is no appropriate term for women of my age. I don't call other men my age "men" unless I'm being sarcastic or ironic. It's weird to call the men," guys" or "dudes" or "fuckfaces" or whatever and then call all the women, "women"

The only time I've heard a dude refer to other dudes (outside of a scientific context) is when they've said "alpha male" or "beta male." So like... They're douchebags.

That's funny. In my head, if I heard someone exclaiming "lookit all the women here!" I'd turn toward them and they'd have a big, "we're finally making some headway under the patriarchy!"-esque grin on their face.

My theory is that they think it sounds all sciency and is an attempt to give credibility to evo psych justifications for misogyny.

Honestly, most of the people that I personally know who use the terms male and female, are police officers. I expect it IS a way to distance themselves from the individuals they're talking about (see what I did there?). MRA's who use it as a way to dehumanize women can go suck an egg.

Really hypocritical of them when you consider Jezebel's previous stance on promoting unhealthy standards for babies. Shameful.

My feels about babbies

I know we are not snarking a baby.

Right?