I don't place negative connotations on either female or woman/lady. The only time I personally find offense is when someone calls me a girl. I would rather be called a woman, but in anthropolgy, female can also be rendered as a race. So therefore in some realms of society, being called female is the same as being called Black or White. Some people use female because it is less formal and more succinct than saying, "That Woman is fine." It is in some ways a colloquial term that many people use. I personally do not feel that either term is right or wrong but a term of expression. I am a woman but I am also a female opposite of the race male.
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