OK what is the deal with using "females" instead of "women" or even "people?" As a writer I have always thought "female" as a noun applies to animals but not human beings, because we have words for that: girl or woman. (wow that link is a monster--will edit this post if it doesn't work). Is "females" now the preferred unbiased term? (Genuinely baffled, not being snarky).

#language #GenderedLanguage #UnbiasedLanguage

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/us/kansas-officer-sexual-assaults-guilty-plea.html?unlocked_article_code=dyHsKXt0xcE1CZgFuzfLjqYKitbfgGbuT51fz1Rbox-R-LRYMpkJesQVJ79I38cjfJJZvGf4HlrTQEmUGgjHO-XYIU-aAS6ANxULuSomHSdLktHEsEijtYWEExmDWHfma7q0aAkTuqW9h7gtbNpplu-4mAue0rhG0pVxpiE62C7sNj2edaWPYmh68_kkye2j1_LAeluEMEIAn12BuFL1otkE86-nKF_UhifsNqMBf7C1YtROTNKJmLkP6LDikf3Rg5juiD7huah1sXZEmNAVcX18SuJz5rBt4bOHGLGTwW4N0S9azhF7t61VJcxlUvz8brt-JcNiAdbaV1aQ37vkccV1jR5BIty_cIXmSrPZQg&smid=url-share

Intuition dabbles in poetry as commentary on literature. I read Watership Down as a child, and I am sure many of you have read it at some point in your life. Or maybe my take on the classic will pique your interest.
https://medium.com/the-power-of-poetry/intuition-5dac723d56f2
#poetrymonth #poetryascommentary #watershipdown #genderedlanguage

Global News BC: B.C. becomes first province to remove outdated gendered and binary language https://globalnews.ca/news/9539227/bc-first-change-gendered-binary-language/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #BCgovernmentlanguage #BCinclusivelanguage #BCgenderedlanguage #Governmentlanguage #BCupdatedlanguage #InclusiveLanguage #Genderedlanguage #outdatedlanguage #GenderNeutral #BCgovernment #non-binary #Politics

Sometimes #GenderedLanguage performs a useful narrative function. For example, we are watching a Netflix video produced in Spain, entitled quote The Cook of Castamar.

The Netflix thumbnail shows a man under this title, so it wasn't until we started watching the video that we discovered that the cook is a woman.

This would have been apparent from the first if we had seen the title in Spanish, "La Cocinera de Castamar." Had it been a man, he would have been the "Cocinero."