Kara Brown Wrote:As Nigatu and Clayton note—we almost never refer to men as "males" in this way.
I refer to them as "males" quite often. Population is usually preceded by adjectival male or female. Somebody on the lecture circuit repeatedly using "men population" and "women population" sounds almost as cracker-barrel as "menfolk" and "womenfolk". Fine if the individual is Mark Twain or Will Rogers, but just preachy-weird if it's a member of the Social Utopian Ministry trying to keep track of all the sacred etiquette of the institution and its constantly edited crime-speak list.
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