So...devastatingly handsome?
this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2026
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Would you look at the lobes on that 🥰
You can clearly see he has the lobes for business 💕
And just look at that dashing smile. And such good hygiene. He clearly uses his tooth sharpener regularly.
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/r/incels had a CSS feature that would insert little ferengi heads every time someone used the word “female.”
That's amazing
You could put CSS in a subreddit?
Fuck modern tech, taking customization away
go to old.reddit.com. Many subs are still custom.
Ayy fuck you. I look like that but I don't go around calling people "females".
quark did say females that are pregnant are considered rentals.
Whenever someone says females but doesn't specify the species, I assume they mean goats.
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Yes, call em bitches like a normal person.
Give that bitch some respect. Bitches love respect.
Honestly I feel like I'm gonna get myself in trouble every time I use "female" at all. There isn't really another adjective to use though. Saying "woman boxer" has a totally different meaning than "female boxer" for example. Oh well, I don't really value the opinion of people who would fault me for stepping on linguistic bear trap anyway.
Female is a great adjective and a poor noun.
such a female thing to say.
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Female is fine. Females is very often used in a problematic way.
I have had negative experiences with people much more opinionated and much less discerning than you.
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incels ruining basic biology words
this reminds me of a mental pebble in my shoe, sometimes it feels like there is an age category problem, "woman" still feels too old/mature no matter how old I get and "girls" sounds too young at this point, "chicks" is my go to because feels vague enough but maybe I just need work on my vocabulary
I've been recently trying to phase my usage of "girls" out when referring to women, because it's unintentionally belittling. I've settled on just saying "woman" when referring to an adult woman in general.
Of course, if you're referring to a woman in person, you need to refer to her as "milady" and tip your hat. That's just basic etiquette.
Lady? Gal? Feminoid? I think context and tone matter a lot too.
I try to stick to pal and comrade these days but it's hard to beat decades of habit.
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Girl is a child. Woman is an adult. Young woman if it's vaguely in between.
Female if you're doing medicine or science.
The girl lost her doll. The woman paid her taxes. The young women got dropped off at the movies. The female puffin lays one egg per season and shares the burden of caring for the puffling equally with their mate.
Are they acually called pufflings? (pretty great if they are)
They are! And it's one of the nice things to know in times like this.
There's a town in eastern Canada where sometimes pufflings get lost on their inaugural flight. The entire town goes out during the season to round them up, take them to a rehab facility to make sure they aren't hurt.
In the morning, the families take the healthy pufflings to a cliff and hurl them into the sea.
This sounds awful until you recall that puffins are aquatic birds who live on cliffs, so it's really just the first step towards breakfast for them.
"Ladies"
"Ladies" can come across as sleazy, imo. And sometimes you're in a situation where the class/status suggested by "lady" ends up sounding sarcastic.
"Gals" implies a level of friendship, and "dames" is too old timey.
It's a tight rope walk of sounding too familiar/formal, implying old/young, or being insulting/demeaning... I conclude that we need a new word.
I think we often forget about “young man” and “young woman.”
When someone is too young to safely call a woman, “young woman” is quite a compliment and gives her the respect of an adult anyway. If someone is just barely too old to be called a girl, they will probably find it neutral enough. And if someone is much too old to be called a girl they will appreciate it as flattery.
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Speaking generously, I can see what you mean. But I think people only have this problem when they are used to calling people “girls” far too long. If you shake that bad habit, you won’t find yourself coming into conflict with these terms so often.
May I suggest the term “young women” as a highly respectful way to refer to younger folks. And if you are truly in doubt or referring to a mixed group, “ladies” is an alternative too.
I don’t recommend “chicks.” Some people are okay with it but many are not. A chick is a newly hatched bird, so this is quite infantilizing.
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Thats weird, when people signal to me that they are an incel, I think they look less attractive. Not more attractive. Quark is fucking awesome, stop the ferengi hate.
Idgi. What word are you supposed to use when referencing females now? It's not "woman," unless you're wanting to talk about gender. Or are people back to equating the two?
OP is referring to people who only refer to women as "females". its a weird trait from the manosphere. you'll hear shit like "these females nowadays..." or "you know what the problem with females is...". they can't call them women for some reason. like they can see a group of women and instead of calling them a group of women, they'll be like "those females".
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