Huh?
Wonder why all recent posts are so downvoted?
Fair point!
But again, this is mostly useful in a production environment, not as a home user imo.
At least three times that I can recall
I am a grad student, and I often wish we wouldn't make too much distinction. It's just creating problems out of thin air.
Even as an adjective in scientific context.
Nope, not proud as in "yay I'm so happy to be male". Proud as in "I'm a male and there's nothing bad about it or the wording around it, I'm happy to be who I am without shitting on anyone being different"
Not here in particular, but I have been called out several times for using the word "female" in an appropriate and normal context.
Why?
One can call a group of men "males", and no one bats an eye. But once anyone uses "female" to refer to a woman, it's a shitshow.
People do use them as nouns. For example, in statistical/scientific context: "Among males/females...", or outside: "I'm a male"
And I certainly saw the word "males" being commonly used, which is pretty much why I'm so baffled by the need to banish its counterpart.
Incels may call women whatever, but actively banishing the word because it was appropriated by some group of weirdos isn't gonna help - rather, it will only deepen the flawed interpretation of a very regular and normal word, assigning context to where there was none.
I'm a proud male. Why can't there be a proud female? This only means she is a woman, after all.
Firefox is bad, Brave is evil. Why did they decide switching is a good idea?