Anglo-California wrote:Degenerate Heart of HetRio wrote:I forgot to add that, in opposition to French (and English), calling women "hembra" in Spanish and "fêmea" in Portuguese is an epitome of dehumanizing sexist language. Much like "macho" is seen as a silly chauvinist thing.
It'd be lovely if we expanded that sentiment by making biology use even more technical terms and getting English speakers to stop using male and female to animals, but rather other constructs...
To the engineering department! Feminists and SJWs will never find us there!
*cough*