My autocorrect is sexist.....

[HopeGarden]

It automatically capitalises Male. But not female.

AIBU to wonder what that’s all about?

I thought it was only my autocorrect that does that! , was complaining to DH about it a few days ago.

A female bird a male bird

nope not mine

Mine doesn't. Maybe you capitalised it once and that is now in its memory?

Mine does it as well. I've no idea why. It does sometimes do female as well (though not that time). I feel I should be able to train it by repeatedly correcting it to male, but it seems unwilling to learn.

So...male male male male male .... ooh, I only had to correct the first two of those.
Again male male male ....just the first one that time
And male male ...hmph, still wanted to capitalise the first one.

This is using the app on an iPad, probably the sexism is platform dependent.
Let's try again male male male ...still wanted to capitalise the first one.

Hello male female male. Wanted to capitalise the first male.

Mine usually makes me wonder if it's on drugs or ever seen a new English dictionary...

So - male - no autocorrect; and female - also no autocorrect.

Maybe it means Malé, capital of the Maldives?

Mine does the same too and it drives me mad.

Because.....
Male is the capital of Maldives...... and proper nouns are capitalised

Let's see, within the context of a sentence, let me type male and female. Nope, okay here.

If it meant Malé then it should be putting the accent on, shouldn't it?

Male isnt always written with an accent (the airport for example when booking flights)

In the context of a sentence male and ...
Oh... that's interesting. I entered 'male' and it 'corrected' it to Male but as soon as I typed the and it put it back to lowercase. And then it was a devil of a job to get it with lowercase m in quotes. Weird.

It's a bloody pain. If I promise this smartarse machine that if I ever need to write about the capital of the Maldives I will capitalise it and accent it - Malé - will it please just accept that male vastly more often refers to sex, XY?

Male is the capital of Maldives...... and proper nouns are capitalised

Nice is a city in France and yet my autocorrect doesn’t automatically capitalise nice when I use the word nice in a sentence.

Mine replaced menstruate with penetrate once.