• Acamon@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    I don’t think people are bothered by “female coworker”, which is perfectly normal. It’s the reference to a “female-only” community, when the actual com is called WomensStuff and describes itself as “women only” and “a women’s community”.

    • Fushuan [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 hours ago

      Maybe it’s just me, but in female-only community, I’m using female as part of a composed adjective. I’d say male-only community too, it just feels more natural. In fact, in an earlier comment I wrote women only, and then writing man only felt SO bad that I changed both to female and male.

      Now that I think about it it’s probably because I used man instead of men. I’ll change both back but OOP miiight have followed my logic? Idk

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      6 hours ago

      Ok. I somehow missed that. I scanned for other uses of “female” a few times but was blinded to the one right next to coworker.