Would "gender-neutral" language actually catch on?

[NerdShamer]

With Berkeley, California establishing a civic policy of replacing certain terms with "people of a different gender" and "person who does this," and with Canada and the Brits criminalizing misgendering; it's obvious that the social justice movement is running out of shit to ruin. And all that's missing right now is this being taught in schools; although it probably is, given what's going on nowadays. With that said, wouldn't it be cumbersome to talk and write like this? Since being "gender-neutral" to identify someone is tacking on more syllables than what' it's worth and omitting one's sex kind of defeats the point of describing someone.

Spoiler: Here's what I'm talking about.

Hopefully, people will catch on to how ridiculous this is. But in the meantime, I need to reconsider my education, since being offended is more important than having a brain, nowadays.

 

[UF 404]

Depends on how hard the media slanders those who don't conform. I don't really see it catching on though.

 

[BoingoTango]

THIS BRAVE GENTLEMAN IS SAYING WHAT WE'RE ALL THINKING!

 

[break these cuffs]

It can only really happen within an organization that can enforce the policy. You see it in the federal government ie. service member instead of serviceman. It won't happen in society at large. (((Some people))) might want to further the perception that it's happening everywhere through the use of traditional media and social media, but it would never catch on outside of metropolitan centers.

 

[NerdShamer]

Depends on how hard the media slanders those who don't conform. I don't really see it catching on though.

With Berkeley, I can see a pencil-pusher getting the boot for not writing like a he's high off some psych meds. And Canada's civil rights tribunal has already fucked up people's lives.

 

[ES 195]

I can't see this catching on. Troons don't have enough real support to alter the language and most women don't give actually give a shit about 'man' being a suffix for a lot of words. People are already a bit miffed over all the societal pushes the far left is pushing down people's throats so they'd probably just fight it on principle at this point.
And no country should ever be want to have the same kind of civil rights as Cuckada, the country's a fucking joke.

 

[It's HK-47]

Not really, because in some languages it blatantly can't even work. Some languages would need to not just be re-arranged, they'd have to be absolutely gutted in order for gender neutrality to even function, which would make general conversation a complete nightmare, if not borderline impossible. Every single word is gendered in French for example, so instead of just being able to say something as simple as le policier (policeman) or la policière (policewoman) you would need to say la policier·è·s. or instead of musicien you'd need musicien·ne·s.

So essentially you'd never be able to use gender neutral language in French because it just doesn't exist, you'd have to specify both male and female every single time you went to use it, and because of the way that they're trying to structure that it pulls every word to a grinding halt like you're slamming punctuation around the sentence and talking with a stutter. It's incredibly unwieldy.

 

[PN 801]

You know I remember using gender neutral language on my paper thinking I was a special edgy kid who was waaayy ahead of my high school.

How people fail to grow out of it is beyond me ...

 

[Queen Elizabeth II]

There may be institutions that enforce it within themselves, but outside in the un/less regulated public space? Not at all.

Making racism a crime has not stopped racism. Making gender discrimination a crime has not stopped gender discrimination. Most people in the UK don't belong to a religion and yet will still exclaim OMG and similar phrases.

People will still use gendered language; out of habit or their languages not being able to function without it.

 

[RetardedCat]

Never will catch on because in a decade, when everyone wakes up and realizes that we fucked everything and there's only two sexes and you can't change it, this shit will just look moronic.

 

[Niggernerd]

Nah man It won't catch on ever unless you're from up north snowy Cuckistan, Gaylolfornia or Troonattle Washington

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

No because it's clunky as all hell.

 

[Rei is shit]

Changing heir is really exceptional but the brother/sister shit is

 

[Clop]

Gender rainbow is a fad and the next gen of kids are going to see the older generation as a bunch of uncool faggots.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Gender rainbow is a fad and the next gen of kids are going to see the older generation as a bunch of uncool faggots.

If the puberty blockers let them live that long.

 

[Clop]

If the puberty blockers let them live that long.

Legalize smoking for under tens and there's still hope for a much healthier society.

 

[Ihavetinyweewee]

Only in certain terms, that sound better with neutral noimclatutr than with gender specific. Firefighter does sound better than Fireman. It really depends if it sound better phoentically.

I actually DO wish we would say 'people' than 'men and women'. The latter being redundant, stupid, and clumsy.

But, in most cases its fucking retarded. 'Garbageperson' sounds insulting....

Honestly, this stuff will only matter in worthless training manuals, faggot press events/ceremonies when the people running are gay enough to enforce it. It isn't going to change much, even in Berkely. This was just chink twinks busy work to pretend he does a job....

 

[Irrelevant]

I don't mind using "they" instead of "he/she" but changing everything to "-person" or rephrasing stuff to be trans-inclusive is stupid.

The place I see the most gendered language is EC (EU) directives/regulations as they use "he" for almost everything and it does feel dated. So when you see politicians complaining about gendered language remember it's because they spend their days reading the "sexist" documents they wrote themselves.

 

[ES 148]

I don't mind using "they" instead of "he/she" but changing everything to "-person" or rephrasing stuff to be trans-inclusive is stupid.

The place I see the most gendered language is EC (EU) directives/regulations as they use "he" for almost everything and it does feel dated. So when you see politicians complaining about gendered language remember it's because they spend their days reading the "sexist" documents they wrote themselves.

Yeah, male-assuming documents aren't evil and rights-infringing but they do seem a bit backwards. I think pronouns etc. should be neutral if there's uncertainty about gender, but beyond that there's no point. That is THE use case for neutral pronouns, when you don't know/care about the gender you're referring to.

 

[Easterling]

If bastardising language to enable in the mentally ill, isn't a sign that the inmates are running the asylum then I don't know what is? There have however been examples of "neutral" identities existing in primitive societies that we are now aware thanks the efforts of anthropologists during the turn of the century. Zuni two spirits are another bastardised concept thanks to the likes of tumblr, but originally "two-spirits" adopted both male and female roles in native american society. In terms of language they simply referred to them by name or status. That's the only real example I have besides the Bugis of Indonesia that have a proto transgender practices called calala lai and calala bi respectively and a third gender in between called the Bissu.