Fashion Board 11-2-03 - 12-09-03

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
Why the third person descriptor? Can't you just write "my friends and I"? And I've also noticed you say "the GF," rather than "my GF." That seems impersonal to me -- perhaps this is the reason that Paigow has doubts about the durability of this relationship. (And it's different from "The Mr." or "The Oddman," for example, because those are nicknames.)

Also, you don't do this, but it's sort of in the same vein -- I hate it when people say female when they mean woman. It strikes me as a rather reductive way to describe a person. For the same reason I don't like it when people say male when they mean man, but this is less much common. In fact, it my observation, it is usually men who use that construction. A woman will usually say man or woman, unless that woman is a police officer and is appearing at a press conference, in which case it is of course futile to hope for adherence to any meaningful standards of English usage.

Does this bug anybody else?

ETA -- Soup, I wrote this before I read your post so it wasn't a passive agressive Friday flame.

I have a gf who I tease about this very thing. She always calls women "females", which just sounds odd to me. I'm not sure I would notice in written word, however.