Nicole Kidman vowed to work with a woman director every 18 months. She has since gone to work with 19 of them in eight years.

  • @grue
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    -132 days ago

    Because using “female” makes you sound like an incel.

    Would you say “man director”? Or, “I work for a man boss”… ?

    No, but that’s because “male” doesn’t have the same kind of bigotry-tainted political connotation. Which is pretty much the point.

    • @lunarul
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      51 day ago

      It might actually be a case of hypercorrection here. Replacing female with woman even when female is the correct word.

    • @CrayonRosary
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      222 days ago

      Incels use “female” as a noun. Using it as an adjective is fine.

      • @MisterMoo
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        72 days ago

        Fighting the good fight. “Woman” is no more an adjective than “man” is, and no, people don’t write it that way because of the relatively new incel phenomenon. They write it that way because they’re using the word incorrectly.