It's this kind of thinking that makes people (men in particular) afraid to hold open doors for women because they might scream at him because "I can do it myself, you chauvinist pig!"

No one's "flipping out" about the use of the term in sociological studies. We're talking about conversational use here.

In (minor) addition to everyone else's stronger points, the word always seems to fall into the Uncanny Valley-esque nadir of comfortable specificity. Because I'm hungry, this metaphor came to me: a sandwich sounds delightful. Likewise a turkey sandwich. A meat sandwich sounds like something terrible on bread. So…

Is that a direct quote from ReturnOfKings.com? Those people make me embarrassed to live on this planet.

He must know about the original A Modest Proposal that suggested (among other things) eating babies right? He MUST be at least somewhat aware that he named his message after the greatest work of satirical irony.

"I've never blanched at being called a male... because I am one.

White men don't have a history of being dehumanized. Using the word "female" literally dehumanizes women by equating them with female animals in general.

"Why is woman or lady"

Because a woman is a human. Lady creeps me out, but for other reasons, and it's…

It's because you're using an adjective as a noun. Females=Not okay. Female scientist, female police officer = okay (in contexts where it's necessary or relevant to point out that the scientist, police officer, etc. is a woman). Same with blacks, whites, etc. "Blacks are all over the television"=no, sir. "Black…

Short answer: female is a term that could be applied to half the animal kingdom and a good number of plants. It's not specific to humans, and because most people mentally rank humans at the top of the biological heap, calling a human being by a term that could be applied to animals is not just othering, it's…

Basically. I've never heard a man refer to a woman as a female when he was describing her in a way that made her seem like his equal.

FEMALES?

Wait, you were a fucking snack burglar as a teenager and your friends didn't know? Shady as fuck.

I used to do this all the time when I was a teen and my friends were not home. I would go in and eat all their garbage snacks their parents would buy in bulk at costco like the apocalypse was approaching and swim in their pools. I was the poor one in the group but I had a good memory and would remember the garage code…

Is his profile picture a film still of Gael Garcia Bernal? Also, why so many ellipses? Am I asking all the wring questions?

I have vaginismus. I had to go to 4 doctors before I had one actually take me somewhat seriously. Doctors told me to have drunk sex as a solution. Medical professionals advising people to get roaring drunk as a medical, professional solution. Doctors told me I needed to relax, to take it easy. Doctors dismissed me,…

At one time, the majority of the information available for breast cancer pertained to MEN with breast cancer. How long did it take the medical community to realize that women's heart attacks don't present in the same "classic" way that men's heart attacks do. Same story all the time. The men are important, the…

Twitter character limits?

I have said it once, I will say it again. It really sounds like LDR has some serious depression issues. And it is very sad.

Are you sure that you weren't actually working at Target and your mom just said it was traveling/vacation?

Oh, no, what if you went to Target? She'd never find you again!

In season one they show one of the characters using a mixture of Kool-Aid and Vaseline to make a lip stain.