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  • That’s not really how sex and gender work, as the other person already pointed out, but in reality the distinction is much simpler. When talking about humans:

    Male/Female: adjectives

    Man/Woman: nouns

    She is a woman. She’s a female professor. She is talking to her male colleague. He’s a man.

    It’s really as simple as that.

    The only time you’d use female/male as nouns is when talking about animals.

    The lion is on guard, as another male approaches. The females keep their distance.


  • Same for .nu, the TLD for Niue, which is used by businesses in the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden, where “nu” means “now”. It’s been taken over by a Swedish company, and they, backed by the Swedish government, refuse to give it back or share the profits, saying it’s “essential for Swedish internet infrastructure”. Colonialism at it’s finest.

    And just for context: Niue has about 1500-2000 inhabitants, and it is estimated that they missed out on about $150 million in revenue since 2013. That’s $100000 per capita, and a revenue stream that’s more than their entire GDP.