We’ve gotta admit that we’d never heard of Maia before today. We had to Google her to learn that she’s apparently a social media star and singer who plays the ukelele.
Clearly that makes her important enough to merit being blue-checked.
Anyway, Maia’s got some friendly advice for anyone out there who makes it a habit to refer to women by a particularly degrading term:
stop calling women “females,” it’s degrading thanks
— maia (@mxmtoon) August 10, 2020
it’s just very objectifying and dehumanizing, and i don’t think it’s always done with ill intent but we as people don’t go around describing men as “males” to nearly the same extent as this issue
— maia (@mxmtoon) August 10, 2020
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We don’t?
what if you're calling men "males" in the same context, like in a certain circumstance such as science?? i'm sorry if this is rude, i just never have any clue why these sorts of things are degrading even if i'm a girl 🙁 <33
— dulcette!! is proud of dream and george ♡ (@onlydulcet_) August 10, 2020
science is fine! mainly referring to situation in which an individual critiques women by saying “don’t you hate when females [blank]”
— maia (@mxmtoon) August 10, 2020
Can I ask why it's more degrading than women? I don't use it when it's doesn't sound right, I'd just like to understand the implications behind it so I know what it is. Like when speaking in biology of a human/animal, but otherwise it's avoided.
— Adam Grayhack (@_crayhack) August 10, 2020
The general discourse around it has to do with the fact that it “others” women. Kind of likening us to an animal or species that takes away from our personhood! Not using it when it doesn’t “sound right” is a pretty fair way of assessing its use IMO
— maia (@mxmtoon) August 10, 2020
Yeah, except no.
??? pic.twitter.com/CAFffXqucj
— BeefMaster900 (@BeefMaster900) August 10, 2020
ok female
— on break (@Xtrovertfn) August 10, 2020
You are a female and I am a male. Simple.
— Aydren (@Aydren) August 11, 2020
— No (@AlwaysUtd14) August 11, 2020
Thanks for the tip, dude.
— アーケットシスターズ (@ArquetteSisters) August 11, 2020
Careful! That’s a good way to get yourself suspended.
Great. Let's cut the stupid award shows in half by combining the two gender categories.
Oh damn, I just realized they're not going to eliminate anything, they're going to add 20 new ones!
Kill me https://t.co/shngU7yRqt
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) August 11, 2020
Will you please find something real to complain about, for the love of god.
— Mo Mo (@MollyRatty) August 11, 2020
Or at least clean her own house first:
This you? pic.twitter.com/9OIHbKPSAM
— RANDOM (@6x3_sam) August 11, 2020
Yes indeed:
why are female musicians always labeled as industry plants and it’s so rare men aren’t? can we believe women and acknowledge hard work thank you goodbye
— maia (@mxmtoon) December 15, 2019
So problematic.
From one female to another, get bent.
— CourtneyG77 (@CourtGPhx) August 11, 2020
