• Revonult@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    I agree it works in most cases it works fine but like “First woman astronaut” feels weird.

    I mostly didn’t want to be accidentally participating in something shitty.

    Edit: or like “fastest woman athlete”

    • ted@sh.itjust.works
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      1 hour ago

      Yeah, I remember feeling like it was weird, but both of those sound absolutely fine to me now.

      I also would never balk at “female” as an adjective in those cases, nor assume the speaker was being misogynist.