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Well obviously your "gender-neutral English" just made up the problem itself that is not present in languages having both unique forms. Nobody needs a pallete with all colors grey to be perfectly neutral for all when you can have completely unique and fitting colors for everybody.

I resent the usually baby boomers look around. I am just relocated to now fit into the baby boomers (keep changing age group)all of the women I know have worked since they were old enough and paved the way in "something men do" for women so lay off the baby boomer #*$t.

Well, in English a lot of _objects_ are female by default. So yes, it is done but in a much more subtle and way too offinsive way. 'E.g. A boat is an IT, not a SHE. If a boat is a she, your mother is a boat. (just for the contrast, I don' mean it for real). Every language is sexist that has female and male "version" for the same statement, and where objects and animals are mentioned as 'she' or 'he' (even when we don't know the sex of the animal, or the name of the boat), instead of IT.

Master Markus, this is a problem that came up in English speaking countries. Before American's Political Correctness, I've never encountered in any other country this type of issue. Giovanni is actually right. I give people too bored here, to think about Asiatic languages (Chinese, Japanese) where they have no plural, no different forms of past or future. if you say one butterfly or 10 butterflies, actually you'll say 10 butterfly as well in those languages. And when the number is out of the sentence, shouldn't the butterflies get angry for not being counted (same goes with everything). This is a made-up issue invented by English speakers. in most latin, slavic languages, gender is applied to all nouns. We have policeman and policewoman, trashman and trashwoman (sure not really used like that, but as a declination of the word). If English speakers whom get sexists over the language have nothing better to do, I suggest they start using policewoman and policeman, trasman and trashwoman.

they are/where only thought of as 'something men do' because for an extremely long period of time (and even now to be honest) these jobs mostly consist of men statistically. Its not that the jobs are 'sexist' or anything like that, its just that men and women tend to have differences in what they want to do with their lives. Its the same reasoning behind why trash collectors are considered 'trashmen', because the job consists mostly of men. It isnt sexist, its descriptive.

you missed the point m8

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Actually it is Blond/Blonde

@WhateversNotTaken it's mostly english related because the default is "policeman" "fireman" etc, but I think it could be a problem in other languages as well, because some languages label everything with the male variant unless it's something stereotypically female.

How so is that English related? Just asking.

ahahahaha! thank you!

What are you even talking about? That is not how the English language works. Words like "scientist" and "architect" and "physicist" are gender neutral. Sexist people ADD the word female to them in order to emphasize that the person is female, likely to point out how weird or anomalous they think it is. This is hard to understand? Do they say "Hey is that female nurse?" No, they say "Here is that male nurse" because the default is that nurses are women. The word nurse is gender neutral in English. Adding a gender as an opinion on who should hold the job is sexist. This is a simple idea.

The thing is, she shouldn't have HAD to work "harder than normal" to get into her line of work. If the same type of competence the men in the field have wasn't enough, that's sexism. If she needs to worry about being pushed around because she's female - well, that's sexist too. Just because we women sometimes accept that these things are as they are doesn't mean they aren't discriminatory. In short, if a woman is qualified for a position, she should have exactly as much chance as any man to be hired for it. If she is hired and competent, she should be treated with exactly as much respect as the men in her field. The fact that this isn't true for all positions everywhere is sexist.

John Ashley. No it is not sexsit to have male and female variant of words. I think it is mean that language accepts female position of that job. And the communication is easier, you do not have to explain if you speak about man or woman. Also in my language you know if the person is a male or a female only by the name and there are no misunderstandings like in American movies . Every thing in my laguage is he, she or it. It is not sexist it is just as it is.

In my language, normally you would want to say "medic" if you wanted to be gender-neutral. "Doctor" is, for some antiquated reason, perceived as a masculine word. So when someone comes and says "the female doctor", you bet it's a +50 male who cannot fathom a woman succeeding in such an important position.

Lacking completely any kind of neutral form we have not much other options, we still use the masculine form if there is no feminine variant yet but it's grammatically weird.

thats called language, language is something that forms over time, and will not just be changed eecause someone fainthearted feels offended

I'm Italian not spanish. Actually most group names related to humans like family, team and even brotherhood are feminine. It is true that in a group of males the spare female is omitted but if the majority is female we use the plural feminine and than list the odd male(s) on the side. It worked like you say once but nobody does that anymore, it's confusing.

So you think your language is c**p? just because you do not like it? in the end, language follows rules. If you walk through a field and find a fence, you can tear it down, because you think its in your way and its false to be there, you do not see any apparent reason why its there. Or you can accept the fence beeing there, and let it stand. Then you find out what its about. And then you can decide if its there for good or if you should adjust the rule and take it down, when you come to see that its not needed anymore. In case of your language concern: there is no need to change a rule that works just fine, just because a minority (and I am not talking about women, women are in fact a majority, slightly more women than men on earth, like 55 to 45 %) that dislikes it for some hidden agenda, is no reason to change this rule.

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Its even worse. Technically (I refuse to do it) if there is 99% female individuals in a group and only 1% males in spanish you are still required to use the masculine. Thats how fragile toxic masculine ego is...

I'm a chemist and female, and the only ones who feel the need to combine the two as a title seem to be older men. I agree with you, howdylee.

Try to sell them (with a straight face) that you've had your uterus removed after all you don't want more kids and it's important to catch up with the male tempo, after all, it's a male-dominated profession...and count how many fall for it. I bet the ratio would be above 80%.

I think there’s a huge difference between male and female strippers

dislikes of my comment for not beeing what you want the world to be, stop making men responsible for your problems and even worst shaming them, start addressing the real problems, as I stated here for the example the media. Denzal Washington: "if you do not read the news, you are uninformed. If you read the news, you are misinformed....." Its easy to make men responsible, but that won't change any problems, because some people of my gender are just straight up a******s. But there are as many women who deserve the same title. Yet, I do not say: women are bad.

Volker H - stop overlooking that men ARE actually responsible for these problems. The whole Middle Ages is men's fault. Therefore the problems are not ours, or theirs - its everyone's! Including you if you think the media an men are separable. I1m reopening the case only because you saind it is closed. It's not your decision, bruder.

so whos the sexist then? Men or media? case closed

@Arno Nüüm, you are a man, thats why your comment has no credit here and gets disliked, as I stated mostly science on those comments, but alot of people seem to dislike science these days. Have worked under so much women in my life. But I figure that doesn't count for those individuals that have a tendency to get screwed over. True words you say, as I too have never been to a 2nd or 3rd world country yet to experience a society where women don't have equal chances. People just do not understand, that a few bad experiences, do not make our society a women hating society

Well Riz, I can only report on account of my own experience. My boss is a woman and her boss is a woman, too. This world where women don't have equal chances might exist somewhere, but I haven't experienced it myself yet.

The problem, you do not state the general conditions, talking about 1st world or the rest. the rest of the world, noone says women and alot of men too get exploited. Thats like saying all men would support rape, which is wrong, hatefull and just disregarding truth

Well said, Monica.

So where are we here? Most of the bored people in the world with internet are 1st world. Noone is denying that alot of countires disregard women rights, but they are most of the time not keen of human rights or nature as well. But in the 1st world, you are a sexist. Proof: if you say this and that nations people are all criminals because you got once robbed by one and therefor traumatized by it, then you are a racist. If you come across some male a*****e, that is borderline psychopath, and you say all (or even most for the case) men are holding back women, then you are a sexist. I am strongly against this 3 generation feminism, but I am no a*****e, I respect women as humans. I treat all humans equal, no matter their heritage or sex. And I think this whole "men are evil" (phrased in one sentence) is very unrespectfull towards your fellow humans, that are of the opposite sex of yours

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No. Just...no. Sigh.

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Maybe in some religious backwater somewhere but not in mainstream modern society. This is stuff from the past.

You are not the whole female population of the world! Maybe you should stand up against those a*****e versions of men. Saying all men are evil sexists is like saying all women are bitches (sorry for the strong word). Which noone does. Its 2019 and not 1919

Gotta love the #notallmen comments directed at Cristin. She did not declare that “all men are evil” or that a few comments here, which are *indeed* disregarding the shared anecdotes of women posting here, “are the entire male population,” but please, mansplain more about what she actually said.

I love when @CristinJust takes a couple comments by a couple a*****e guys and declares that they are the entire male population, therefore all men are sexist.

Yes! If "Man" is not gender loaded, how come it sounds weird when you say "Man, being a mammal, breastfeeds his young"?

if your only argument for sexism is language, then you are damn lost

Kolvanov, like I mentioned above I'm the only female in my department yet I'm the only one in my department who speaks foreign languages (our native is not English), who managed to finish university in 4 years and who has an article published in an international journal. I have an IQ of 144. My gender, looks, appeal, hair or high heels are not the factors that got me this job or will get me any jobs. I'm clever, successful, responsible and well-educated. Anyone who is qualified for a certain job, without the roles of their gender, can be hired for that job. Also if you check Daniel Goleman's "What makes a leader?" you'll see that IQ is not enough for leadership, EQ is a must too. Yet, men who can't and don't treat their female colleagues respectfully like in your case, lack that required EQ.

Volker, you are the one asserting that all men are “rapists, sexists,” etc, not any of the women here. But you’re doing a great job destroying that straw man you’ve built for yourself.

It does exist, in a small portion of men, that did not get into modern times. You are the Sexist here because you possibly had bad experiences with a few (I guess you have chosen those to be your friends) and therefore we are all rapists, sexists and totally ignore women. Thats like me beeing robbed once by a foreigner and from then on I say people from thsi and that country are all robbers. Which btw would be racist. You have to differentiate between 1st world and the rest and beside that, you are disregarding statistics, studies and reality. There is more to it then the job distribution to explain why there are so few female engineeres. Tell me, why are then architecture and medicien dominated by women? You probably say wrong, but you are, just because the star chefdoctor is a man, doesn't make the field dominated by men. Get your stats maybe not our of cosmopolitan and genderstudies taught by 3 gen feminists

....when you try to disprove misogyny exists with blatant misogyny. Classic.

Volker, I guess this was a reply to me since I'm the only one who mentioned "department". Why would I be scared? I didn't even state a fact that would require someone to prove me wrong. Where you live your circumstances might be different, I live in Turkey so my circumstances are most certainly different than yours. The point of this post is to show men how life is through women's eyes, so that they could show some empathy. Mine was a simple comment and I don't know why it offended you. I work in facility management sector, in technical department. I never complained about not being promoted as well, I'm already working as a manager here. I've always said I wanted to be an engineer and half of my class in university were females. I agree with you on your "women have other values as men, especially career wise", but unfortunately there are plenty of people who don't think so.

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Because Victim = Virtue