That sentence is a great way to show how to use female both correctly (male-to-female ratio) and incorrectly (Adding in some females).

Rest assured, when it is done in the military you can feel the derogatory intention. My time in the Army is where I learned to loathe the use of the word.

I agree. I HATE being referred to as “a female" rather than a woman. My gender is female, I am a woman.

Fuck. I’m sorry. Don't know how I missed that.

Exactly. It’s dehumanizing. And it is much easier for people to be victimized and treated inappropriately when you refer to them in dehumanizing language.

BREAKING NEWS: MAN HAS OPINION RE: HOW WOMEN SHOULD FEEL ABOUT THE WAY THEY ARE TREATED

You know I think your right about some men being scared to use the word ‘women’. I’ve noticed the rise in use of the word ‘female’ and it drives me mad. I’m starting to believe these men find themselves in a position where they don’t want to use ‘girls’ incase a woman is offended but are scared to use ‘woman’ as it’s…

*rolls eyes*

Way to condescend. Thumbs up!
Seriously, it’s not like this is a new way for women to feel. It’s come up at least fifty other times on Jezebel alone. The predominant user of ‘female’ as a noun to refer to human women is the Fedora M’lady Nice Guy learning to neg. So yeah, that gets under our skin after a while.

I don’t know, maybe some kind of noun that indicates my humanity? There’s this really common word that I know a lot of men are afraid to utter out loud, begins with a “w”.

Toys makes me laugh. I worked on ships and I was planning to go to my best friend’s wedding during one of my leaves. As I’d be getting back RIGHT before the bachelorette party and wouldn’t have time to shop, and as the ship visited Halifax which has the excellent Venus Envy, I decided to do my shopping before I went…

Yeah, I used to work split shifts on the ship. 6am to noon, 6pm to midnight. Of course I didn’t really get the time between noon and 6pm off. I still had non-scheduled tasking that had to get done. It wasn’t too bad, one of the shifts was just walking around making sure nothing was going wrong, the ship wasn’t…

I feel like if there's a union for cruise ship workers this is exactly the kind of shit they should be across.

Also as a woman in tech, you have to be aggressive to get ANYONE to listen to you and get anything done.

I can’t see that “Silicon Valley” picture without thinking of the episode about the “negging” culture amongst tech companies, and Zach Woods perfectly explaining that negging is “a manipulative sex strategy used by lonely chauvinists.” It was hilarious to watch all the show’s bro fans melt down on Twitter after that…

Rumors that he sexually assaults young female comics and because he’s so influential nobody comes forward. There was an article about it on here a while ago.

Completely stolen from Margaret Atwood and paraphrased quite poorly:

Ummmm, what the what, Debbie D?!? When I look at her, I see someone who is old enough to damn well know that marijuana is not the same as heroin. Heroin, that people are getting hooked on through the ‘gateway drugs’ of the totally legal prescription opiate painkillers that her donors (big pharma) manufacture and…

Because someone who violates another will not self-report. The language is specific because it encourages those who may be harmed to report as opposed to encouraging others to simply not do something.