big noses and (naturally) thick eyebrows are some of the most beautifully striking features a person can have and they’re basically a Look that you get to wear all the time and anyone who makes you think they’re a liability rather than the asset they are is ridiculous and wrong and i will personally fight them for you
Anonymous asked:
closet-keys answered:
“Female” is an adjective. “Woman” is a noun.
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.
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Drawing this was emotionally taxing.
(Thank you talking-bird-jessie for suggesting this scene from Order of the Phoenix!)
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