• grandkaiser@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Nah. In the military, you aren’t “men and women” you are “soldiers” (or sailors, Marines, or airmen). If you are referring specifically to a specific gender such as a “female” soldier, then that’s what you call them.

    No one says “women soldiers” except maybe a civilian.

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      1 year ago

      No one says “women soldiers” except maybe a civilian.

      And I’m not telling you to, stop putting words in my mouth. Female as an adjective is fine, “female soldier” is fine, calling a group of human women “females”, as in a noun, is demeaning and incel lingo.