• mikey@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      102·
      2 months ago

      thanks. can you explain please? should i have made the female more obvious like fe-male or should i have just wrote ironman’s a female! or just explained myself better?

      • Akasazh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        2 months ago

        The former, imho. Plus capitalize the first letter and don’t forget the apostrophe in Ironman’s (however ‘Ironman is’ is better).

        Basically you took an older joke and bungled the delivery with a sentence with as many errors as there are words.

      • Starya67@lemmy.world
        51·
        2 months ago

        Use capitals and punctuation and don’t call women “females” unless you’re a ferengi.

        • dev_null@lemmy.ml
          5·
          2 months ago

          The joke cannot work without “female” though. (Fe being the chemical symbol for iron)

        • mikey@feddit.ukOPEnglish
          41·
          2 months ago

          I understand that misogynistic groups have been using the word out of context. But surly that doesn’t preclude its use in mainstream English!