That's not the correct response at all. 5 people getting offended by a word, does not mean that a word is offensive. Everyone can be offended by a word that does not mean that the word is offensive.
You don't speak for all women. Now you are being a sexist. Women are not a monolith that share the same opinion on different issues.
I'd suggest you read some of the responses in the thread first, I think the reasoning as to why you shouldn't be using "females" in a certain way has been pretty well explained by now.
You don't speak for all x, so I'm going to use this term. Ok buddy, you do you.
I read some of the responses. These are not representative of the larger society at large. A large number of women don't have with this. You can't enforce what a very small minority of women think on an issue.
When discussing an issue in a thread, can we stick to the opinions of the people in it rather than this imaginary majority that exists to disprove an overwhelming argument by people that actually bothered to post. See also 'you're all wrong because I asked my gf'.
Do you need a poll or something? The clear majority of women in this thread say it's lame. Is it that hard to listen and be nice or do you just have to be a dick about it?
Do you have proof or are you ignoring the women in this thread whom most of them have the same opinion that females is derogatory?
It's rather apparent that the OP wasn't referring to Era but rather in general.
It gets really annoying having men just stumble in with what basically equates to "lol fuck you no" when it's really a very simple request.
Using profanity is considered crazy now? Rants are long. All I said was don't be a dick since it takes very little effort not to use a word. It's funny you're so concerned about etiquette when it comes to profanity but not with sexist language.
Well, don't just assume either, context is for kings and some people do prefer describing themselves in ways that go against perceived norms.
I was not getting at that, of course. I am just talking about the redundancy in that specific example.
Not really, the 'she/he' at the start of the sentence makes it redundant.
It's because their native language makes them. Most use a mix of English they hear on tv, read on internet and sometimes translate 1 on 1 how would say it in their language.
Do you have any sources on this? Because the (obviously related) German "Frau", as in "Sie ist eine Frau", absolutely means woman(or sometimes wife), which made me curious.
