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Re:Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth ... by OJFord on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @07:46PM (#19976304)
What makes it better? (Or either of them anything other than neutral, mundane words?)
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Re:Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth ... by untog on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @08:41PM (#19976658)
"female" and "male" are very clinical, scientific terms. They also lack humanity - there are male and female dogs, cats and birds, but that's not the case for "men" or "women".

No, none of this is backed up by a dispassionate reading of a dictionary but that's language for you. It's emotive, for better or worse.

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Re:Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth ... by tom_ on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @08:32PM (#19976592)
What makes it better? Well, "man" and "woman" are Anglo-Saxon terms, not Roman, so there's that...

But, in the main, it's just my experience that anybody insisting on using the terms "male(s)" or "female(s)", when it comes to people, is up to no good.

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Re:Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth ... by jpindar on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @09:48PM (#19977018)
"Female" sounds like something police, Ferengi and incels say, so "woman" just sounds more pleasant.
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