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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Sexist autocorrect test replies please.

77 replies

ScreamingInTheVoid · 27/03/2019 13:48

As I type, normally, on my iPad, the word Male will automatically correct to be capitalised, but female won't!

Could i ask for replies with both the words 'Male' and 'female' in them? Obviously don't start a sentence with them. I want to see if it's just my own treacherous sexist tablet, or a bigger thing.
Thanks.

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Awks · 27/03/2019 22:58

I wish a male made me feel as positive as a female did. Plus a man and a woman. what about a guy or a doll?

Nope my iPhone 7 doesn't do that 👍

failingatlife · 27/03/2019 23:00

He is male. She is female. Im not using an Apple device though!

Treaclespongeandcustard · 27/03/2019 23:02

I am not impressed with autocorrect male male or male. All ok here. Phew. Female wins ... even if I cheated with the full stop as a precursor Grin

Isadora2007 · 27/03/2019 23:03

I am seeing if my phone is sexist when I type male and female.

It’s not. Phew. Good phone.

WarpedGalaxy · 27/03/2019 23:05

He is a male
She is a female

He’s male
She’s female

My iPad is not sexist. Yay.

Cuntysnark · 27/03/2019 23:08

I will test now, male & female. I’m ok!

tinkywinkyshandbag · 27/03/2019 23:18

He is male she is female

BlackPrism · 28/03/2019 00:07

Well if I write male and female they do not become capitalised. Perhaps you write Male a lot and it has learned to correct to that.

littlecabbage · 28/03/2019 03:19

He is male, she is female. Android phone.

Iused2BanOptimist · 28/03/2019 07:45

It annoys me more that autocorrect doesn't recognise god as a proper noun. You don't have to be religious to believe God should be capitalised as I was taught a long time ago. Whether or not God is male.

ErrolTheDragon · 28/03/2019 08:19

It annoys me more that autocorrect doesn't recognise god as a proper noun.

It's only a proper noun when referring to the Christian deity. It's not a proper noun when being used to mean deity in general eg if you were referring to the Hindu god Vishnu. The assumption that god should always be capitalised does indeed seem like something that would have been taught a long time ago.

SudocremeQueen · 28/03/2019 08:23

She is female, he is male.

Good iPhone…

buzzbobbly · 28/03/2019 08:40

The capital of the Maldives is "Malé" not "Male".

Dictionaries like those used by phones can recognise accents, so it shouldn't be capitalized "Male" in the Maldivian context as that is not the actual name. That said my phone doesn't recognise "malé" as a word, but "Malé" is fine if I deliberately capitalize the M.

FWIW, my iphone does not capitalise a male/man/female/woman at all (unless at the start of a sentence, obviously)

ErrolTheDragon · 28/03/2019 08:47

Let's see... Malé - my iPad auto capped that, which is fine, but malê or malè or malë (random wrong accents) aren't recognised. So it should be able to tell the difference and not sodding well capitalise Male . Hmm

KatvonfeelzlikeaMAN · 28/03/2019 08:57

Mine capitalises Incongruence
As in gender Incongruence

Silly phone

ErrolTheDragon · 28/03/2019 09:12

Why would it do that to incongruence? That's plain weird.

The other day on The Archers thread, mine highhandedly changed Usha to Aisha. I'd have though it should have a general rule not to autocorrect anything the user has capitalised, given that it can't have a complete dictionary of names.

LadiesFinishFights · 28/03/2019 09:14

He is a male.

She is a female.

Android phone. Neither capitalise.

Redcrayons · 28/03/2019 10:13

He is male she is female.

Gender equality from my iPhone.

moofolk · 28/03/2019 11:49

Mine does not capitalise male.

Per eg transwoman you have to press on the version of whatever word in "quotes" in the left suggested box for an iPhone to learn it (hence still writing ducking an awful lot).

Interestingly my phone just autocorrected 'hence' to 'gender' and could clearly have a GI debate without me and make more sense than most TRAS. Might set my phone up with its own autocorrect twitter account. Current debate as follows.

My middle predict, after typing the word gender came up with this: The gender identity is gender identity and the other people in gender roles gender gender roles and men

I tried again, in response: The gender identity of the girls are not being a single male gender gender roles in the other hand roles gender identity

WarpedGalaxy · 28/03/2019 12:18

Mary is a transwoman - transwoman typed with no corrective gap interference so I guess I must have done it enough times to have adequately ‘trained’ the predictive function on my iPad.
Fucking fucking fucking fucking fucking - hmm it seems if I fucking do it enough fucking times, after initially selecting the “fucking” in quotes, it fucking seems to fucking work rather fucking well.

FeministCat · 28/03/2019 13:01

She’s a female, he’s a male.

Nope. Not capitalized for me!

FeministCat · 28/03/2019 13:02

Whoops, forgot to add I am on an iPhone X. Updated to newest IOS.

ScreamingInTheVoid · 28/03/2019 14:15

Mine adds the insulting gap in trans woman, it needs to check its thinking.

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applesarerroundandshiny · 28/03/2019 16:13

I am female, he is male.

No capitals - old iPhone

ErrolTheDragon · 28/03/2019 16:19

Moofolk - keep pressing it, your phone will have written a gender studies dissertation in no time.

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