Aug 25, 2017 · 1 min read
You’re quote mining. Male/masculine are not synonyms.
Definition of masculine
1
a : male masculine members of the choir
b : having qualities appropriate to or usually associated with a man a masculine voice
2
: of, relating to, or constituting the gender that ordinarily includes most words or grammatical forms referring to males masculine nouns
3
a : having or occurring in a stressed final syllable masculine rhyme
b : having the final chord occurring on a strong beat masculine cadence
Also, I don’t have to remind you dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive.
