California city to ban gendered language like ‘manhole’ and ‘manpower’
submitted 4 years ago by HeyImSancho from (fox59.com)
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[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (2 children)
What does society gain?
[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (1 child)
It just helps keep things neutral. While i don't personally care, other people do. Phasing out gendered words is a big agenda for leftists and I don't care either way.
[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (0 children)
I don't think it keeps things neutral.
Most languages have gender cases for almost all nouns. Are those countries changing their languages?
If not, then I suspect that there's more to this then we're being told.
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