It wasn't a trap. I wasn't trying to checkmate anybody. I was just honestly curious.
It seems to me that calling somebody the opposite gender is offensive because we tend to value societal standards. When a man is called a woman, the man is offended because they aren't being viewed as "manly", and women are offended because it's made to seem that women are inferior, or that being womanly is offensive enough to be an insult.
The same can be said when a woman is referred to as a man, as Peanut pointed out.
I've never really viewed either insult as an attack on the opposite gender as saying "being that gender is an insult," but rather an attack on that person not fitting the role they're trying to portray. Feeding into their insecurities, I suppose.
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