Talk:Male

Not a noun?
I see this was deleted for not being a noun. I think I should refute this. Sure, it's more commonly used as an adjective, but, at least in the real world, can be used as a noun in technical contexts, and, as for the DWU, an example of it being used as such was actually provided on this very page before it was deleted. The quote in questions being "Rebels of London, this is your last offer - our final warning. Leave your hiding places. Show yourselves in the open streets. You will be fed and watered. Work is needed from you... but the Daleks offer you life. Rebel against us and the Daleks will destroy London completely. You will all die. The males, the females, the descendants. Rebels of London, come out of your hiding places.", from TV The Dalek Invasion of Earth. There's also this very similar line from TV: The Stolen Earth; "All humans will leave their homes. The males, the females, the descendants. You will come with us. Resistance is useless". Both of these cases show "male" and "female" clearly being used as a noun (as well as "descendant", the third gender), and I'm sure there are other examples of such in the DWU. Additionally, this page serves a useful purpose, since "man" and "woman" only apply to adult human males/females (not a dogwhistle, btw, I'm literally a trans woman myself), whereas "male" and "female" are slightly more technical terms that can be used for an individual of any age and species (well, any species that shares both the biological sexual dimorphism and societal gender classification as humans, but that's just more of an argument for including since it allows us specifically to compare DWU species that do so to DWU species that don't). And yes, I get that we already have pages for sex and gender in general, but I don't think this necessarily precludes having something a bit more specific as well any more than us having a page on The Doctor prevents us from having ones for each of their individual incarnations as well. NightmareofEden ☎  13:18, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Yeah, this is very clearly a noun as well as an adjective. "Oh, what biological sex are you?" "Oh, I'm a male." (Which, of course, dramatically oversimplifies things, but still.) I assume the idea is that in something like "male orangutans" it's being used as an adjective, but that doesn't in itself stop it from being a noun as well. Najawin ☎  18:21, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Wiktionary clearly lists male and female as nouns as well as adjectives. Hope this helps. The  Farty  Doctor   Talk  03:17, 10 February 2021 (UTC)