As a dude who build wire harnesses, I absolutely loathe when people call them male/female.
There are plugs and receptacles, and pins and sockets.
Plugs plug into receptacles. Receptacles get plugged into by plugs.
Pins plug into sockets. Sockets get plugged into by pins.
It can get very confusing when you have a receptacle with pins or a plug with sockets and some chode says something gender referenced, such as "the male end".
Ok, are you talking about the plug? Nope, obviously they were talking about the receptacle, because it has pins, even though that's the end that gets plugged into.