The concept of female , which comes from the Latin word femĭna, alludes to a animal whose sex is female . Because of their biological characteristics, females are different from those males (male animals).
He female genital apparatus It is the main characteristic that distinguishes females from males. In the females of the mammals , the genital apparatus is composed of internal organs such as the uterus and the ovaries and from external organs like the clitoris and the genital lips .
In general, females also have specific secondary sexual characters . In many species of mammals, for example, females are less corpulent than males.
Typically, females carry embryos inside during pregnancy and development. He body of the female is prepared to shelter, protect and feed the new specimen until the time of delivery.
It is important to mention that female people are called women And not females. This appeal may appear in colloquial speech in certain cases, but it is not frequent.
This distinction is very curious, since it is not fulfilled in all the Spanish-speaking regions and arouses a very common concern in the human being: to be compared with the rest of the animals. Our species has many virtues, but also the unfortunate defect of tending to destroy the planet that gave it origin and, as if this were not enough, having determined that all other species are inferior to her, that they are below her intellectual capacity and that, for this reason, they owe her respect.
He specism It is moral discrimination that is based solely on the difference in species between two or more animals. This term was coined by the psychologist Richard D. Ryder in the 1970s, but the concept it represents is much older and, unfortunately, has not disappeared or lost strength since then. Most human beings learn from the womb about this false superiority which 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, the fear of people being classified with the same terms used for rest of the animals
Another fact worth mentioning in this context is the fact that there are fewer problems to describe newborn babies as males or females instead of children or girls than to young people and adults. But this is also linked to the hierarchies so harmful in which the system places us: man is the superior being, below who women are and, finally, children. In this way, machismo reigns both the material and the intellectual world.
If we put aside our prejudices with respect to the rest of the species of mammals for a second and we refer to the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy to find the definition of female, we will see that it includes the people Of the female sex.
A female plant On the other hand, it is one that, when the species is divided into female and male specimens, bears fruit.
Female, finally, is the piece presenting a hole or an opening where another piece, called a male, is attached or inserted. Thus, the union of the male part and the female part allows a connection or the fastening of two elements. Many times the cables that allow the connection of electronic devices have male connectors that fit into female connectors .
