I am not a native English speaker and I have sometimes referred to people as male and female (as that is what I have been taught) but I have received some backlash in some cases, especially for the word “female”, is there some negative thought in the word which I am unaware of?

I don’t know if this is the best place to ask, if it’s not appropriate I have no problem to delete it ^^

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      More like implying they do know, actually. It’s hard to imagine speaking english as well as they do and somehow not knowing this.