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by chefgoldbluum 1815 days ago
It is not surprising people react poorly to other people trying to police their natural language based on assumptions projected onto them about it.

Male/female to describe individual or cohorts of humans based on sex is pretty common language. It certainly isn't "fundamentally" wrong. It's just a higher abstraction. You have to infer the form of being from the context - usually very easy.

The rest of this article is just an author's assertions about how these words are used.