"Then the feminists began to take over. " French outrage as their Left wing government tries to change the entire national language so as not to offend women; "Seeking to rid French of the domination of the masculine".

desderon · 2017-10-07T22:23:23+00:00

They have a president that was raped and then ended up marrying his rapist, but the problem is that people say mean things?

Rethgil · 2017-10-07T21:02:31+00:00

This is the sort of thing that turns us all against each other and makes us afraid to just exist in society. It fragments unity and stops us focusing on the serious issues in life and uniting over important issues. Its also the sort of thing that shows us how toxic feminism has become, and how powerful too.

grundb · 2017-10-08T02:32:28+00:00

We had the same discussion in german. It is even more drastic in a language where pronouns change their endings when followed by a male or female noun. (And just for the record, grammatical gender and biological gender are two entirely different things.)

So feminists want to replace the endings of nouns and pronouns with an x, making sentences utterly bizarre. Comedian Dieter Nuhr made fun of this when he said "I don't want to live in a world in which a book ends with the sentence Dx Mördx war dx Gärtnx."

rg57 · 2017-10-08T03:33:03+00:00

If the feminists defeat the French, what hope do the rest of us have?

The French wouldn't even let email be called email... it had to be courriel or some nonsense. THIS bureaucracy is going to fall to feminism?

2017-10-07T21:21:39+00:00

it is a witch hunt

brontide · 2017-10-08T02:01:35+00:00

Part of the reason French is a popular language is it's strong central authority the Académie Française in deciding the path of the language. In the past these changes have been slow and predictable. I get gender agreement by majority rather by exclusion, but this non-gendered gibberish is nonsense like xim.

hatefulreason · 2017-10-08T10:47:12+00:00

why does it bug me so much that feminism and other bullshit is called "left wing" ?

McFeely_Smackup · 2017-10-08T04:30:37+00:00

One of the key points of George Orwell's "1984" was that if you control language you control thought.

Unfortunately the political Left read it as "How To" manual, not a warning.

imbecile · 2017-10-08T05:49:19+00:00

If we are startign to overhaul the grammar of our languages, I think there are other concepts that need far more adjustments than gender.

Gender is a social reflection of sex, and since sex is one of the most important aspects in the life of most multicellular life, it isn't that unsurprising that pretty much language reflects that reality in its most basic constructs.

And changing language to not reflect that reality and distinction anymore and thus making communication about sex and gender more difficult is not something that will be very successful I think.

A grammatical construct that I would like to see adopted in every language is that the veracity:

There is a South American language, where the form of the sentence changes depending on how the speaker knows about the statement he makes:

whether he saw it with his own eyes
whether he deduced it from other circumstances
or whether he was told about it by others

If that kind of grammar would be widely adopted, science communication would be a lot more straight-forward and propaganda and dishonest advertisement would be a lot more difficult.

RobbyHawkes · 2017-10-08T08:35:38+00:00

Under the standard rules, masculine trumps feminine in plurals, meaning, for example, that a man and a woman are described as “amis”. Two or more friends are called “amies” only when no men are included.

To put it another way, there's a special case for when it's all women. Funny how you can cast the same situation in many different lights.

RedPill_Swinger · 2017-10-08T11:46:33+00:00

vous êtes tous (tout·e·s) atardé·e·s

:'D :'D :'D

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