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[–][deleted] 31 insightful - 6 fun31 insightful - 5 fun32 insightful - 6 fun -  (4 children)

Les femmes trans sont des femmes. Les lesbiennes, on doit nos droits aux travailleur.e.s du sexe trans et racisé.e.s, vous l'oubliez trop souvent. Merci à elles de rendre cette pride plus safe.

Ugh, have the French forgotten their own history now to just rely on a bad revision of American history? Napoleon is the one who legalized same-sex attraction back in 1791 almost 200 fucking years before an American gay man and drag queen didn't start a riot.

Can we just stop importing American shit to Europe?

[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman🇬🇧🌳🟦 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Quite apart from nutters wielding road flares, what bothers me most about this is the absolute fucking butchering of the French language in the name of inclusivity.

racisé.e.s

travailleur.e.s

Not for the first time I find myself agreeing with the Académie on this issue:

La multiplication des marques orthographiques et syntaxiques qu’elle induit aboutit à une langue désunie, disparate dans son expression, créant une confusion qui confine à l’illisibilité. On voit mal quel est l’objectif poursuivi et comment il pourrait surmonter les obstacles pratiques d’écriture, de lecture – visuelle ou à voix haute – et de prononciation. Cela alourdirait la tâche des pédagogues. Cela compliquerait plus encore celle des lecteurs.

The multiplication of orthographic and syntactic marks that it ['inclusive' writing] creates results in a discordant language, disparate in its expression and confused to the point of illegibility. It is difficult to see what the point is and how it will overcome the practical difficulties of writing, reading - both visually and aloud - and pronunciation. This will increase the burden on teachers, not to mention readers.

[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I was about to say "Thank god gendered languages don't use bullshit 'inclusive' language"...

[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman🇬🇧🌳🟦 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

:l