Nicole Kidman vowed to work with a woman director every 18 months. She has since gone to work with 19 of them in eight years.

Nicole Kidman vowed to work with a woman director every 18 months. She has since gone to work with 19 of them in eight years.

  • CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldEnglish
    231·
    2 days ago

    Is it just me or is “woman director” strange grammar? Why not “female director”? “Woman” is a noun. Would you say “man director”? Or, “I work for a man boss”… ?

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      417·
      2 days ago

      Because using “female” makes you sound like an incel.

      Would you say “man director”? Or, “I work for a man boss”… ?

      No, but that’s because “male” doesn’t have the same kind of bigotry-tainted political connotation. Which is pretty much the point.

      • lunarul@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        20 hours ago

        It might actually be a case of hypercorrection here. Replacing female with woman even when female is the correct word.

        • MisterMoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          1 day ago

          Fighting the good fight. “Woman” is no more an adjective than “man” is, and no, people don’t write it that way because of the relatively new incel phenomenon. They write it that way because they’re using the word incorrectly.