Referring to a person as “A Female” or a group of people as “Females” is objectifying, because it reduces them to that singular characteristic. It’s kind of a subtle thing, esp. if you’re learning English as a second language.
It functions linguistically in a very similar way to other identifying adjectives such as “black” or “trans” or “gay.”
It’s totally fine to say “a black person” or “black people” but saying “a black” or “some blacks” sounds inherently racist, because you stop describing people’s race and start defining them as nothing more than their race.
It’s totally fine to say “a transgender person” or “transgender people” but “a transgender” or “some transgenders” sounds inherently transphobic.
Same with “a gay person”/“gay people” vs “a gay”/“some gays”
In addition to that, “females” as a noun is also primarily used by MRAs (”Male Rights Activists” who are misogynist) and TERFs (”Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists” who are transmisogynist).
So basically, for many English-speaking women, using “female” as a noun is a quick way to make us very nervous about how you perceive women.
Dr. Willie Parker, who is trained as a gynecologist and OBGYN, is a hero for the pro-choice movement because he’s honest about the undiscussed aspects of getting (or not getting) an abortion. Watch how he gives a consultation.
They haven’t been covered much in the mainstream media butBoko Haram have been terrorising Africans with devastating, widespread and long-lasting consequences.
Boko Haram promotes a version of Islam which makes it “haram”, or forbidden, for Muslims to take part in any political or social activity associated with Western society.
This includes voting in elections, wearing shirts and trousers or receiving a secular education.
Boko Haram regards the Nigerian state as being run by non-believers, even when the country had a Muslim president - and it has extended its military campaign by targeting neighbouring states.
An estimated 1,100 schools have been destroyed this year alone
The UN have stated that over a thousand schools have been destroyed in Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria in 2015 so far.
This is a list of their major attacks so far in 2015:
Although the figures of deaths are numerical, please remember that these are people who had jobs, lives, families, dreams, hobbies, just like you. They are more than numbers on a screen.
I’ll be updating this list as events progress. Please let me know if I have missed anything and I’ll add it in.
They’re only killing Africans so nobody seems to care…
Whoever analyzed this timeline…God bless you
Thanks. There’s so little interest in it that the timeline on Wikipedia hasn’t even been updated since July so I had to search and add most of these individually :/
