• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    English is gender neutral. You have to deliberately apply a gender to something unless that word is gender specific, like cow or bitch referring to female animals.

    In my brief forays learning other languages one of the more frustrating things to learn is that you can have female refrigerators, male buses, and gender neutral roofs. That is not gender neutrality.

    So I don’t get your issue with genders, seeing as they have nothing to do with English language neutrality and everything to do with how you address a specific individual at their request.

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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      6 months ago

      In what fucked up language are refrigerators female? They’re obviously male.