Females vs Women: Life is a learning process throughout!

This article is especially for my friends on Womenwritingmen group. 

After my post on reddit, I read the comments carefully ignoring the unhealthy ones. If there are healthy comments even if negative, I try to imbibe them into my next writings. I believe that a person learns throughout life. It never stops and especially so if you are a medical super-specialist too. 

I was happy on reading the comments about usage of the words females vs women in my article. I took it sportingly and in a healthy way because I always believe that there is a lot of scope for self-improvement. During my travel for personal and work purposes to various parts of the world, I noticed certain things that I want to share with you all. 

1. Languages are a mode of communication and understanding. Often in countries such as Oman in the initial start of my work there, I have communicated with my patients by mere gestures and could diagnose accurately even without knowing their language. I do not of course recommend this as the normal mode of communication. 

2. Language is easy for those whose first language is the language in which the article is written. One reddit reader and commenter after an investigation of the blog rightly reached the decision that the blog is from a country where the first language is not English. 

3. Every region and country have their own specific words that they use for everyday communication for a particular thing or as a verb or noun. If you go to Maldives, they use the word 'damage' often and the same term is used when they refer to skin injury  or body injury or distortion of an inanimate thing like a wall. They are not so well versed with English there and rarely use the word 'harm'  even at places where its usage is more recommended. 

And if we think about the word,  f**K. It is so commonly used in the USA. A person uses the word so often in a day and it is not considered bad. But in Asia, it is not used so often and loosely. Firstly people do not know the word because their education is in vernacular medium most of the time and secondly it is considered a bad word here. So it is avoided. And those who use this word while talking are looked down at. 

4. Sometimes your choice of words also comes from the profession you are in. In medicine, often one uses the word females and women interchangeably. In fact, females word is used more often than women. 'Female' word is also used in a noun form and also as an adjective. Browse through pubmed articles and you will find a number of articles where 'females' word is used as a noun form. 

All said and done, in common usage, female word is reserved and used more as an adjective and for females of human race as well as animals and insects. And women is only for females of human race. And 'females and males' or 'women and men' should come in the same sentence and not a mix of it. Thanks for reading and correcting. Best wishes. Take care.