Miranda Yardley
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.

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