We need to start using the word female instead of woman. Woman is patriarchal word
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Roseanne Barr (@TheRealRoseanne) November 08, 2012Rising like a phoenix from the ashes of defeat, fifth-place presidential candidate Roseanne Barr took to Twitter to announce a new political cause. Surely, such a great mind would have big ideas moving forward, unencumbered by the constraints of leading the free world. Or not.
Replace “woman” with “female”? Do we really need to tell you what happened next?
@TheRealRoseanne well that's fucking ridiculous—
Aaron (@ridgway15) November 08, 2012
@TheRealRoseanne That's among the dumbest things I have ever read, and my feed is far from intellectually challenging.—
Ben Stapleton (@benstapleton) November 09, 2012
@TheRealRoseanne Roseanne you should stop trying to be an influential feminist. this is the 5th dumbest thing you've ever said.—
lauren (@catches_sars) November 08, 2012
What are the other four? Then again, there is quite a menu to choose from.
@Into_the_Never @TheRealRoseanne female makes us sound like specimens and not humans. I don't know a single feminist that is ok w/ "females"—
lauren (@catches_sars) November 08, 2012
.@TheRealRoseanne huh roseanna hate to break it to you but"female" is patriarchal, weird, + clinical. "look at those females"-birdwatcher—
☠uɐıuɐɹǝqɯoq ǝɥʇ (@capitaljizzm) November 09, 2012
@TheRealRoseanne know your place female. Ya that works, I usually tell my hubby "know your place woman" but I can change…—
angela dammann (@angeladammann) November 09, 2012
@TheRealRoseanne Female sounds so scientific though… and we use the word man, so woman would be the same.—
Dawn Jones (@Into_the_Never) November 08, 2012
like it's already actually a thing, calling women "females" like we're not the same species? @TheRealRoseanne—
PURR IDEOLOGY (@heySMM) November 09, 2012
@TheRealRoseanne Come on now this is the kind of thing that makes people not take feminists seriously.—
Krystal Goff (@Kg_Dog) November 09, 2012
@TheRealRoseanne female is an adjective not a noun. #petpeeve—
Jeff Schoop (@jschoop) November 09, 2012
Oh well, at least we’re glad that Roseanne is coping well with her loss. However, all of the male Twitchy staffers would like to gently remind Ms. Barr that our wives and girlfriends would beat us to a bloody pulp if we downgraded them from “women”" to ”females.” Just a thought.
