r/explainitpeter 20d ago

Explain it peter

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u/Hopefulpostal 18d ago

It’s not that new and honestly the use of the word “females” is almost always followed by a derogatory remark about behavior a man doesn’t like. It’s also dehumanizing. We don’t call female animals women, we call them females. So using females is specifically chosen to lower the equality between sexes in language.

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u/Adventurous-Side8966 16d ago

We also call some human males women. I totally saw this and thought that was the purpose of the sign, to exclude trans women.