BuzzFeed Thinks We Should Stop Calling Women Female Because It's Sexist

BuzzFeed has put out another article that is best described as minutes of your life that you can never get back, in which they list six reasons why they believe people shouldn’t refer to women as “females.”

The reasons: The article, titled “6 Reasons You Should Stop Referring To Women As ‘Females’ Right Now,” explained why they believe the word female is so terrible.

#1. Female and woman don’t mean the same thing. BuzzFeed wrote: “‘Female’ is a scientific term that refers to the sex of a species that is capable of producing children. The term ‘woman’ refers specifically to human beings, while ‘female’ could refer to any species.”

#2. Using the word “female,” according to BuzzFeed, amounts to “reducing a woman to her reproductive abilities” and “is dehumanizing and exclusionary.”

Oh, and because no conversation about women would be complete in feminist land without including men who put on dresses and makeup, the transgender argument is here too. According to BuzzFeed, using the word female excludes men, because science is inconvenient to their narrative.

“Also, not all women are biologically female, and the conflation of ‘female’ to ‘woman’ erases gender-nonconforming people and members of the trans community,” BuzzFeed wrote.

It’s interesting how in feminist land, men are bad unless they’re pretending to be women, in which case their interests jump ahead of women.

#3. Back to the “men are bad” narrative. No one calls men “males” casually, so that means using the word “females” is bad.

#4. The word “female” is, according to BuzzFeed, “often” used to put women down.

Not always, but often. And it’s typically when “female” is used as a noun (i.e., “Females are the worst!”). Here’s a fun exercise: Search the word “females” on Twitter and see what you get.

And in that Twitter search, note how many women use the word and note how few of the left’s preferred punching bag — the evil white males — are included in those using the word “female” to refer to women.

Interestingly enough, the word seems to emanate from black culture, yet I didn’t notice anywhere in the article in which that was pointed out. Gee, I wonder why?

It sure seems like if you’re going to make an issue out of something, you might want to include where the problem is coming from, unless it doesn’t fit in with your identity-politics, victim-culture narrative.

#5. Grammar.

#6. “And most importantly, because the word you’re looking for already exist,” BuzzFeed wrote, saying that the word is “women.”

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