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Man who calls women "females" hopes to one day be allowed within 500 meters of one (chaser.com.au)
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[–] gerbler@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

It's not so much that the word itself is offensive it's just that using it as a noun instead of an adjective to refer to a person carries with it connotations and implies you're referring to a person as if they're a subject or an animal or something below human.