So now I feel I am finally ready to vent about what I don't like about some of the words that define genders. Here are my gripes. I have no problems with the words boy and girl, they're words that define different genders and as such they're totally different words. Also I don't have any problems with the words man, male, and lady. Again, different words. What I don't like are the words woman and female. Why? Because they use man and male as their root word. A word for defining a different gender should be a completely different word, not the same word with some extra letters added on. I am no expert on the history of the english language but I will say this much, whoever came up with the words is a completely brainless dimwit. I would like to go back in time and knock some sense into them, and I would like to go back in time and change the english language in that regard. It is so cheap to come up with words to define a different gender just by adding a little prefix.
OK now I feel better, since I vented and blew off some steam.