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by txsoftwaredev 1415 days ago
Female, according to Merriam-Webster: "having a gender identity that is the opposite of male"

I would be incredibly offended if I was an actual woman.

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I was surprised that one of the definitions of Female is exactly as quoted so I looked up male and one of the definitions is:

> having a gender identity that is the opposite of female

we have achieved word definition stack overflow!

Since “male” and “female” are the last words of both, I’d argue that with tail-call optimization this turns into an infinite loop.
>we have achieved word definition stack overflow!

I prefer to think of it as the equivalent of an Excel circular reference.