Words and gender

[jon-nyc]

I know almost all of the men’s words and almost none of the women’s. Of the latter, the only one I’ve ever personally uttered is doula.

[xenon]

The US vs. UK words are also fun:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-018-1077-9/tables/1

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc does this take into account non-binary?

[jon-nyc]

@lufins-dad said in Words and gender:

@jon-nyc does this take into account non-binary?

Non-binary is an oxy-moron. Because dividing people into binary and non-binary just creates a different binary that we’re all part of.

[Klaus]

I know 16 of the male and 1 of the female words (freesia).

[mark]

@klaus said in Words and gender:

I know 16 of the male and 1 of the female words (freesia).

19 to 1 lol

[Catseye3]

I know or sort of know 11 of the male words and I know 17 of the female words.

Listing the male words I sort of know or am guessing at:
azimuth - something to do with surfaces or horizons;
aileron - something to do with airplanes;
degauss - something to do with physics;
katana - ancient Japanese sword;
teraflop - something to do with computers;
parsec - something to do with physics.

[Klaus]

The lowest p_female score is on femtosecond.

How can one not know what a femtosecond is?

Granted, it's a more unusual unit prefix than "micro" or "kilo", but you learn those prefixes once and then they can be applied to any unit. And everybody knows what a second is.

[jon-nyc]

@Catseye3

Well I can do that

peplum: Something to do with chick stuff
tulle: Something to do with chick stuff
chignon: Something to do with chick stuff
...

[Copper]

18-3

And even after hard evidence like this, some people believe women are equal to men.

[Catseye3]

@jon-nyc LOL.