Use of ‘female’ and’male’ (in science fiction) (disambiguation).
Often in science fiction when someone refers to a male or female member of some other species, they use terms like “the klingon female”. If a Klingon was to refer to his own species, they would refer to her as “Klingon female “. The relationship would continue through the next Generation. As of December 16, 2019, one could ask another Klingon about this. For me as a native German speaker, this sounds rather weird as in German this kind of wording would only be used when referring to animals (e.g. bats or lions). Female dogs, tom, and is it derogatory? If referring to humans, you would always use the equivalent words for “woman” or “man”. In some non science fiction movies, those images are actually real.
In English, is the use of “female” or “male” to describe a person of either the same or an equal species derogatory or not? Are there any connotations to something that I don’t get? Is this usage fine among humans (in the real world)?
How would you describe a person using YouTube to write a non-fictional quote?
Woman and man refers only to members of the species Homo sapiens. It is not a generic gender term that can be applied to other species.
Because the Klingon world is made up, and we don’t know their language, the writer is not able to say, for example ‘Vardikon’ for ‘Klingon male’ and ‘Komptree’ for ‘Klingon female’ – as we don’t know those Klingon words – for ‘woman and man’ in Klingone’.
What’s the real meaning of literary expression? Which then doesn’t work if a reader dips again after the first sentence and misses the explanation.
Why do authors use Klingon “themale” as the name of the book?
Is saying it’s irrelevant in English?
Do you use art to artistically emphasise aspects of gender – say, for contrast – for example ‘the female stood before him, battered, frail, bloodied, as the giant raised his hand’ Contrasting her as ‘weaker’ in comparison to ‘the giant’ by emphasising her gender? Also potentially making a broader statement about ‘womankind’ at the same time.
In the TNG series woman is a human and man a person. Can someone be woman and man? Man-Man and womb-man.
If ‘female’ is used in a more mundane situation like ‘the female assistant came up to me and she said…’ then that’s ok and not derogatory. If she is a male shop assistant, her background would be different.
Man -‘member of the species Homo Sapiens…’ https://www.dictionary.com/browse/man?
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Police regularly use male and female as nouns or adjectives, a convention often imitated by news outlets.AKRON,
Ohio — Police say two males robbed another male of marijuana and then shot the victim in the ankle when he chased after them. Which show gives this the best shot at Cleveland? com, 16 Feb. 2019, – 0.10 p.m. Until nov.16.19 2019
By the time I finished reading at 9:30 am, I lied. When a teller approached the TD bank in Franklin, the female teller used the note to ask for cash, but dished out a note to the machine. She said nothing. The suspect was described as a black male with a medium build and facial hair wearing a grey checkered jacket New Jersey Herald, N.J. Herald, 17 Jan 2020.
On the scene of another male shopping in town, police say he brought a firearm and a gun. Eventually arrived to our parked car. No fatalities reported in the incident, police said. London Free Press (UK), 14 Jan 2019.
The woman was treated by emergency services but died at the scene. Is The Age Right?” com (Melbourne), 14 Aug. 2018.
On Tuesday, March 13, 2018, a female dressed in scrubs entered a seniors’ residence in the West end of Ottawa, and proceeded into tenants’ rooms and stole various items — Ottawa Police
Medical Literature follows the same convention: A
20-year-old Caucasian female presented with vitiligo on the knees, with the right knee involved more than the left knee.
He had asthma. The asthma was severe. The asthma was very severe and the asthma was very severe. The diagnosis was critical. What the language
of doctor and police and physicians have in common is that they use male and female purely as physical descriptives. Though this usage may seem impersonal and antiseptic, it is not insulting or demeaning.
What makes you believe that a girl is flirting with you even if you don’t know
her boyfriend? When you hit a man in the neck you can’t blame him. The truth is that you should not blame him. The next turning point in my life is the role of
gender. In my business I work with female employees, formerly the CEO of Totally Her Media (UK) Is it its first day, in the mid- to late Sixties, was thrilling? I’m a girl who wanted to forge her own life and earn their own mortgage, because she thought she was a good human being and my style of masculinity was so much better than a girl would be. I thought she could be female (no girls) for no longer as a female. — Angela Lambert, “Beware the march of liberal thinking police,” The Independent, 5 July 1993.
The new man was once a radical way to describe a male who wholeheartedly accepted equality in domestic life.
What happened to the term, “New Man”? BBC News, 22 Jan 2014.
How can you refer to a sexist person as a man and as a woman without meaning the situation is unfair? (critical and inappropriate).
“I don’t know who you are, but I assure you that I have nothing but this boy’s best interests in mind.” Greg Funaro, Alistair Grim’s Odditorium, 2015.
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Klingons the only Star Trek humanoids represented in a Google N-Gram, but even here, Klingon man does not appear, which means the term returns less than 40 hits ;( b*c*b*]? In the Star Trek universe, females should be specified and
then male females have to be selected.
Er, Aslan, and Sargon all believed that Kalrind would be attractive to the Klingons as he believed that Kalrind are the only three. How does Kirk see her if he wants to see her face? Timetrap: From 1988 a New York Times, p.43. (Douglas Dvorkin, p.49)
Though the Romulans have a fairly egalitarian — though fascist — culture, Romulan woman is the only term that appears in NGram, suggesting the same male default.
If a Klingon female wishes to divorce her mate, she simply declares “Gos tlhogh cha!”
Our marriage is done! Oh, and then she belts him… — Michael Jan Friedman, Robert Greenberger, Q’s Guide to The Continuum, 1988, 38.
Do Klingon women address “maqoch” only if she intends to insult him and/or her? When a Klingon was attempting to address a female, he referred to her as a Maqoch. Obviously his mother had made it clear that this was not the case. Is word maqoch derived from may’ qoch (literally, fight partner)? If so, why? Mark Okrand, Klingons for the Galactic Traveler, 2011.
Kira turns to look at Talok (she’s a black eyed girl), but not intempered. — Day of Honor (anthology), 1999, 298.
The first is drawn from non-narrative works where the use of male and female give the passages the air of cultural anthropology. As if the Klingons were some jungle tribe “discovered” in the 19th c. While this usage is betray cultural bias, it is free of affect, which, of course, makes it all the more insidious when applied to real people instead of inhabitants of a fictive sci fi universe.
Is the formation shown in Science Fiction true? If so, then what is its significance? Is it a deliberately distancing and depersonalizing locution, an oft-used writer’s shorthand to denote an alien perspective?
Given that, you wouldn’t use it in ordinary discussion. English is an insult after all. But not only is “Other than” it’s normal in German.
With that said, there are exceptions. When we say there are exceptions, there are exceptions. In modern American slang, “females” is used instead of “women” but usually only if the speaker is male. Which can be problematic, please try without judgement? Also, as @KarlG indicated, it can be used in institutional or scientific descriptions (perhaps because of the depersonalizing effect, and perhaps to avoid the numerous additional connotations of “man” and “woman”).
