• mle@feddit.org
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    9 days ago

    That may be but if they would shorten “female soldier”, wouldn’t they refer to her as “a soldier” and not “a female”?

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      9 days ago

      Yes, we heard “that is just a soldier” as well. They just didn’t like the terms lady or woman, you had to use “female”.