• apotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.org
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        2 days ago

        One would think that the brain would choose one form or another instead of mixing and matching when words have pairs

        Males and females

        Men and women

        Gentlemen and ladies

        Boys and girls

        But here they used males and women

    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 days ago

      Tbh I have a habit of doing it myself, because one has been decided offensive while the other has not. The other option in this case isn’t “men” either, rather it’d be “boys,” Camp Green Lake being a juvenile detention facility, and “boys” inverse “girls” can often be interpreted objectionably as well. (Not to mention the whole “holes” correlation, uhh, might not want to associate that with juveniles…)

      Though also I think this is the first time I’ve ever seen “males” called out like the inverse word.

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        3 days ago

        and “boys” inverse “girls” can often be interpreted objectionably as well.

        Huh? Anything like “men and girls” is weird, but “boys and girls” is completely normal

        • smh@slrpnk.net
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          3 days ago

          I’m just going to drop this right here: sign announcing visiting it l hours for girls and men at a small jail I took it while visiting my brother in jail. Kentucky.