And many of us never stop to ask whether it’s the case or not…
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It’s a perfectly cromulent adjective when used accurately. The issue is using it when a noun would be the correct choice, or when the equivalent (male) isn’t used for the non-females in a parallel structure.
Saying ‘the doctor and the female doctor’ is wrong. Saying ‘we need to hire to hire a female in that department’ is wrong. But saying ‘women often prefer to go to female doctors for safety reasons’ is correct (and factual).
Thanks for sharing. My usage seems consistent with what is explained above from that thread. But I’ll simply try to avoid it in the future.
Factually and grammatically correct, perhaps, but it still makes you sound like a pompous dick unwilling to listen to constructive criticism.
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Do you use the wrong nouns when corrected, because you believe you’re right? Do you keep using language that is bigoted when told? Or do you just refuse to respect women when they point something like this out to you?
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Your usage was very close to the example of “the doctor and the female doctor.”
You said “the show and their female co host.”
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Well DUH! Women are not the ones who normally do those things, so we need to separate them out! /s
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