History of Feminism

over the years I've occasionally heard older men call women "females" and I always got the feeling that they were trying to sound scientific. Or somehow wiser than the rest of us.

I never got the sense that they were denigrating women, but now that I think of it they probably were in most cases. Outside of a biology lecture, taking such pains to distinguish "females" from the rest of us means there is something specific about them that requires definition apart from the common feminine nouns. And I doubt they saw that something as a good thing.

OTOH, they may have been hiding their own insecurities with such language. They may have actually been in awe of women and had no understanding of them at all.

Kids now? Who knows...