Females in the community.

[Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d]

On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 04:51:21 +0000, Mike Parker wrote:

> On Thursday, 17 March 2016 at 17:42:43 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> 
>> P.S. what's with calling women "females", is it an americanism?
>> It sounds super weird to a British ear, we'd normally only say "female"
>> in a technical setting or about an animal, so it can sound a bit
>> disrespectful.
> 
> As an American, it seems more natural to me to use 'female' and 'male'
> as adjectives

As an adjective, agreed. "Lady" compounds better than "woman", so you can 
use that too.

Using 'female' as a noun in place of 'woman' is in my experience a 
hallmark of pick-up artists, men's rights activists, and allied trades. 
Just don't do it.