Gendered Language Debate
Discussions revolve around grammatical gender in languages like German, Spanish, and Russian versus English, debates on gender-neutral terms such as 'guys', 'he', or 'females', and whether they are sexist or offensive.
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No genderedness intended! My dialect has guys as gender neutral noun!
Can you give an example of referring to a gender-specific way that's weird in using gender-neutral words?
Interesting that this language is gendered.
Are gendered words inherently sexist? E.g., is "He"/"She" sexist now?
Referring to women as "females" probably won't help, either
language 1 extracts gender to a separate word.language 2 embeds gender in the word itself.names are words.it's a lose-lose situation: native speakers of language 2 will look at what you wrote and cringe or just assume you're ignorant. they won't get the point you're trying to make, null, nada, 0% chance. source: i'm a native speaker of language 2.
well, it is highly dependant on the language, some require distinction between sexes, and using a gender neutral term is sometimes offensive.
This is more of a problem with the English language and its lack of a gender-neutral alternative.
Sorry, not a native English speaker here. In my native German, it is usually proper to use the male form for the undetermined gender. This might leak into my use of the English language. I would be happy, if you could rephrase the offending sentence in correct gender-neutral English, so I could avoid this mistake in future.
“Gender” is the exact term for this; no need for the quotation marks. As an English native speaker, when studying romance languages I never found genders to serve any purpose (other than to make the languages harder to learn). But it’s an interesting speculation.