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YOU DO IT ON ONE OF THESE! OBVIOUSLY!!!

and that brown end? the hard bit? pencil sharpener. or sharpened with a blade. are you following me? now, attach six of those to a harpy.

There is a vital difference between "this is a scientific fact" and "this is the definition of a word". Language is constructed. Words have the meaning people give them. "Well I don't use it like that" is the same defense used when people insist on calling a group of trans women "guys". "It's not an exonym to me" well there's a hell of a lot of people who think otherwise

"But it's MEANT to-" the original intent in the coining of a word has absolutely Nothing to do with what it means. Especially when that word is used to describe actual human beings.

"Mentally retarded" was meant as an inoffensive diagnostic term to replace the previous well-meaning, inoffensive diagnostic term, "mentally defective". which itself replaced a previous collection of well-meaning, inoffensive diagnostic terms, "moron", "imbecile", and "idiot".

If your protagonist is a fighter or magic user, do you show other women in those roles? If your society is more relaxed about sex discrimination, have you built a world that looks like it?

Have you built a world where your female characters don’t all have to be The Best At Everything, or is almost every female character placed where she can be extraordinary next to a bunch of male counterparts? Are you comfortable letting a female wizard or warrior be average or unimportant, or does she have to be one of the most skilled and powerful of them all, able to match or best all the men around her? On the other hand, are you comfortable having a female wizard or warrior be indisputably the most skilled or powerful out of the wizards or warriors, without drawing attention to her gender, placing her in competition with men, or having her be an exception to the rule because she’s female?

Are you letting your female characters be mediocre and un-extraordinary? Your world is full of powerful sorceresses, fierce battle maidens and calculating noblewomen, but do women do things in this world other than be Exemplary and Great and Awesome? If you’ve established that women do business and fight, do you have female soldiers carousing at bars and vaguely dull female Evil Minions Of The Dark Lord bumbling around doing evil bidding and female apprentices slacking on work or is every background woman we see competent and controlled and intelligent and doing whatever it is she’s doing without error, whereas only men are allowed to be foolish, impulsive, mess things up, or just be shown unflatteringly during the couple sentences we know them? In other words, does the world show women being unapologetically human beings or are all your female characters basically making up for being women by not doing anything that would badly represent their gender?