Abbie Chatfield has warned her fans to take caution when using the word ‘females’.
The Bachelor star, 28, claimed in a recent episode of her It’s A Lot podcast that using the word ‘females’ is offensive because it dehumanises women and excludes transgender people.
‘It feels like a slur. It feels like the word b**tch. it feels… obviously sexist,’ Abbie explained.
‘It feels transphobic in a weird way because it’s categorising people. Also when you say ‘females’ it sounds more like someone’s stating a fact about a group of people,’ she continued.
Abbie said that when the word ‘women’ is used, it allows for more ‘debate’ on what it means to be ‘female’.
Abbie Chatfield, 28, (pictured) has warned her fans to take caution when using the word ‘females’ because it dehumanises women and excludes transgender people
She went on to explain how the word ‘female’ sounds archaic because it implies that women are like animals who require a male to provide for them.
‘They’re saying ‘females’ in a way to remind us that we [women] can’t change our natural instincts and we can’t change what we actually want – which is a protective big man to take care of us,’ she said.
When asked whether it was offensive for a woman to use the word ‘females’, Abbie said it ‘feels like it’s internalised misogynistic’.
In her caption, Abbie admitted that the word ‘slur’ might be ‘too harsh’ to describe the word ‘females’, but doubled down on her argument that the term ‘irks her’ for a good reason.
‘It could be because it’s used by incels (involuntary celibate people) and misogynists as a whole,’ she speculated.
‘It feels transphobic in a weird way because it’s categorising people. Also when you say ‘females’ it sounds more like someone’s stating a fact about a group of people,’ Abbie said on a recent episode of her It’s A Lot podcast
Abbie’s fans were quick to weigh in on the debate in the comments section, with many saying they agree that the term is derogatory.
‘Absolutely. Literally makes my body tense up when I hear it used in this way by men,’ one user wrote, as someone else agreed: ‘Yes it’s dehumanising and women shouldn’t use it either.’
‘When [men] use ‘females’ it feels like a way to strip us down to only our reproductive parts and devalue both us and and trans people because 1) it tells us that is all we are to them and 2) tells trans women they aren’t women because they don’t have those reproductive organs. It feels like a double whammy or disrespect and disregard’,’ someone else argued.
Abbie’s fans were quick to weigh in on the debate in the comments section, with many saying they agree that the term is derogatory
However there were plenty of fans who disagreed with the sentiment.
‘You’ve gotta be kidding me. Trying to sound really ‘switched on’ or something? Females are women, and females are girls. It’s the same thing haha my god,’ one wrote.
‘We are females. Women, females, all the same. This is petty,’ another added.
