Thank you for your thoughts. It's not only in English. In German it's the same and I've experienced the same awkwardness. Even here we use "ladies" the english word or the German equivalent "Damen" instead of option for "Frau" which means "woman" in German.
Love your last paragraph. Correct use of language makes it not so awkward. More awkward than using woman as adjective is using female as noun. It's demeaning and also downputting for women, euqating us more to animals observed, not autonomous humans. Always makes me think of the person saying it as a Ferengi from Star Trek TNG.
YES! Love this. That's wild about German, and also not so wild...makes me wonder how many other languages do this. And your point about using the adj "female" as a noun--absolutely
Thank you for your thoughts. It's not only in English. In German it's the same and I've experienced the same awkwardness. Even here we use "ladies" the english word or the German equivalent "Damen" instead of option for "Frau" which means "woman" in German.
Love your last paragraph. Correct use of language makes it not so awkward. More awkward than using woman as adjective is using female as noun. It's demeaning and also downputting for women, euqating us more to animals observed, not autonomous humans. Always makes me think of the person saying it as a Ferengi from Star Trek TNG.
YES! Love this. That's wild about German, and also not so wild...makes me wonder how many other languages do this. And your point about using the adj "female" as a noun--absolutely