The concept of female , which comes from the Latin word femĭna , refers to an animal whose sex is female . Due to their biological characteristics, females are different from males (male animals).
The female genital tract is the main characteristic that distinguishes females from males. In female mammals , the genital tract is made up of internal organs such as the uterus and ovaries and external organs such as the clitoris and genital lips .
Generally, females also have specific secondary sexual characteristics . In many mammal species , for example, females are less corpulent than males.
It is common for females to carry the embryos inside them during their gestation and development. The female's body is prepared to shelter, protect and feed the new specimen until the moment of birth.
It is important to mention that female people are called women and not females. This appeal can appear in colloquial speech in certain cases, but it is not frequent.
This distinction is very curious, since it is not met in all Spanish-speaking regions and awakens a very common concern in humans: being compared to the rest of the animals. Our species has many virtues, but also the unfortunate defect of tending to destroy the planet that gave rise to it and, as if this were not enough, having determined that all other species are inferior to it, that they are below its intellectual capacity. and that, for this reason, they owe him respect.
Speciesism is moral discrimination based solely on the difference in species between two or more animals. This term was coined by psychologist Richard D. Ryder in the 1970s, but the concept it represents is much older and, unfortunately, has not disappeared or lost steam since then. Most human beings learn from the womb about this false superiority that results in the torture of so many animals on farms, the destruction of hundreds of habitats with the consequent extinction of their associated species, and, among many other horrors, to people's fear of being classified with the same terms used for the rest of the animals.
Another fact worth mentioning in this context is the fact that there are fewer problems describing newborn babies as boys or girls rather than boys or girls than young people and adults. But this is also linked to the harmful hierarchies in which the system places us: men are the superior being, below whom are women and, lastly, children. In this way, machismo reigns in both the material and intellectual worlds.
If we put aside our prejudices regarding the rest of the mammal species for a second and refer to the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy to look up the definition of female , we will see that it includes people of the female sex.
A female plant , on the other hand, is one that, when the species is divided into female and male specimens, bears fruit.
Female, finally, is the piece that has a hole or opening where another piece, called male, is attached or inserted. Thus, the union of the male part and the female part enables a connection or fastening of two elements. Many times the cables that allow the connection of electronic devices have male connectors that fit into female connectors .