DISCUSSIONQuestion - is this nonsense around pronouns happening in other languages?

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[–]GreenScreen[S] 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Interesting, so is there an Spanish equivalent in normal usage of 'they' as in indetermined gender, which is now being used rather than 'he' or 'her?

[–]r2d2_21 10 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

so is there an Spanish equivalent in normal usage of 'they' as in indetermined gender,

Not quite. Spanish has “él” = (he) and “ella” = (she), but the indeterminate gender is also “él”. In general, anything that has no gender or both genders (like a group of people) just defaults to the male gender.

The reason “les hijes” is so ridiculous is because the -e suffix doesn't exist, it's 100% an invention for this gender nonsense. I'd say it's similar to using “xe/xer”, but if you defined “xe/xer” to be the gender neutral pronoun.

[–]WouldYouFightAPanda 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In general, anything that has no gender or both genders (like a group of people) just defaults to the male gender.

I remember this being a big topic back when wokeism started to gain steam, as one of the original "we need to de-gender language!" examples. It was obviously the machinations of the Patriarchy that determined masculine to be the default.