University of Leipzig implementing "generic feminism" to address professors

Crimson_D82 · 2013-06-13T05:34:37+00:00

Now the University of Leipzig is taking gender equity in language one step further by implementing so-called "generic feminism" and using the female form to address males.

In the official university charter, a male professor (Professor) will now be referred to as Professorin, the female version of the word. A footnote will explain that both male and female professors are included.

Explain to me again how this is gender equality?

SpanishGuy · 2013-06-13T05:18:52+00:00

They proposed doing something similar here in Spain, but the jokes about it were so many and so brutal that they just gave up.

Ma99ie · 2013-06-13T04:27:00+00:00

I am sorry, but this reeks of 1984-esque big sisterdom. These people are totalitarians. Thank God for the 2nd Amendment in the U.S.

2013-06-13T08:07:23+00:00

I thought they used the masculine because it was shorter and less cumbersome. Eg, actor, actress. Doing it the other way takes excess time and syllables, plus in English speaking countries masculine terms are gender neutral.

vampvincent · 2013-06-13T10:28:52+00:00

Sounds like the usual Thought Police horseshit.

MechPlasma · 2013-06-13T11:36:18+00:00

I approve of it in theory. It sounds silly to make profession names single-gendered, but it's actually really common nowadays. Gendered words are pointless, there's no reason not to.

The problem is that, rather than going with whatever's the most popular word, or the shortest or the basest form, they go with the feminine. So that people are forced to think about women. Which is nonsense. So we end up with this:

First we have to bring women into the language with a generic feminine, but the goal should later be to do away with the feminine ending "-in."

Basically, they don't like having -in at the end of every word. So their solution is to put -in at the end of every word. Obviously.

KingOfEggsAndBacon · 2013-06-13T11:36:20+00:00

People just won't do it.

I sure won't.

If I would give a crap about nationality I would be ashamed to be german right now.

MechPlasma · 2013-06-13T11:36:44+00:00

"generic feminism"

The article is about the generic feminine.

That is a horrible typo you made there and now the whole title is misleading.

KingOfEggsAndBacon · 2013-06-13T11:40:59+00:00

This kind of feminist-speak reeks of a neutral, sex-less society. Sex-less in the both senses. The biological sense and in the sense of the absence of erotic. Void of any identity.

Anyone who hasn't should read Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut and We by Yevgeny Zamyatin.

Title	University of Leipzig implementing "generic feminism" to address professors
Author	Mattentaart
Upvotes	17
Comments	17
Date	June 13, 2013 12:43 AM UTC (13 years ago)
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