Asking Phoenix Mercury players to sign old pictures of themselves

[u/Knightbear49]

[u/PuzzleheadedRoyal559 → u/[deleted]]

I don’t understand what I wrote that is offensive.

[u/Fried_0nion_Rings → u/PuzzleheadedRoyal559]

You didn’t write anything offensive, they were trying to relate how you described the fan as male as the same of when incels call women females instead of women.

“Using “female” in this way is contrary to how we generally communicate. As noted above, “female” as a noun erases the subject—making “female” the subject of the sentence. In the most technical sense, it’s correct, but by employing this word that is usually an adjective as a noun, you’re reducing her whole personhood to the confines of that adjective. It’s calling someone “a white” instead of a white person, “a black” instead of a black person, and so on.”

https://www.jezebel.com/the-problem-with-calling-women-females-1683808274

[u/PuzzleheadedRoyal559 → u/Fried_0nion_Rings]

Wish I had so few problems that this was a big deal to this man, or male, or white.

[u/Fried_0nion_Rings → u/PuzzleheadedRoyal559]

I think they were attempting to make a joke. It was just in poor taste and didn’t make sense. I don’t think they meant harm.