Zirrboy
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My own understanding of aforementioned opinions, without warranty for completeness or portrayal of all aspects:I'm a little disconnected from how people normally do all this stuff, but I feel like the complaint about gendered language is when it's applied to people inappropriately, lol. Like if you call someone you know is a man a sissy, they get upset.
I'm sure people go to extremes that don't fit that, but applying a false gender to words like human or mandate just because they have the word man in them is too far. There's definitely a difference.
The key point here is something called male default, where upright, mostly hairless and neuron-overactivity-plagued apes are by default men, with women being a derivative thereof. (I have no concrete info how other genders play into the model, but probably the same as women)
Most languages with grammatical gender that I know of have plural forms of group/profession names for both men and women separately, but use the male variant for mixed groups.
Even the now mostly gender neutral English language achieved this by dropping the -tress suffix used for women.
If not given a gender specification, like the anonymity of the internet, or being tasked to describe say a doctor, the overwhelming majority of assumptions is in favor of men.
Even the now mostly gender neutral English language achieved this by dropping the -tress suffix used for women.
If not given a gender specification, like the anonymity of the internet, or being tasked to describe say a doctor, the overwhelming majority of assumptions is in favor of men.
Whether this is just fighting a symptom or related to worse issues, like medication being tested on men for the most part is debatable, but that's the short of it