• @FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I’m in my 30s and I’ve never met a single person in my entire life who refers to women as “the females”. I work in a highly male-dominated field full of country boys, for reference.

    • @Default_Defect@midwest.social
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      85 months ago

      I’ve not personally met someone like that either, but I AM terminally online and see it a lot. It’s usually Andrew Tate enjoyer types.

    • @JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee
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      55 months ago

      I’m in my 30’s and haven’t heard it out in the real world either, but that’s probably because the assortment of individuals who use females as a pejorative either don’t use it in public because it’s cringe and they know it, or because they don’t go outside.
      That’s only my educated guess though.

    • @DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca
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      25 months ago

      When I worked in an FLGS I heard it from customers quite often, which we would always try to nudge them in another direction. It’s not the “country boys” who say it, it’s the 4chan/incel/Alpha-male set.