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[–]exiled_from_reddit 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I disagree heavily with user who wrote that in Polish there is no such nonsense happening.

It's happening in 'leftist' and internationally connected circles, in artistic and creative circles and in academia. It definitely isn't happening with 'crazy kids' only. And it has very clearly and very strongly intensified for the last 2 years.

It's also being transposed into Polish without any regard for language characteristics. E. g some people are pushing others to publish their pronouns and even use the phrase 'use the correct pronouns!'

However in Polish not only pronouns are gendered but also adjectives, nouns and some verbs. Take the sentence: "I worked for the magazine X as an independent journalist". In Polish there are different feminine, masculine and (sometimes) neuter forms of words "worked", "independent" and "journalist".

From the perspective of wokies it has a very undesirable effect - you don't actually ever need to announce your pronouns. It just suffices to say something, and others may easily ascertain the grammar gender you use. Of course this fact doesn't bother Polish crop of wokies at all - they still go around and yap about announcing 'pronouns' like it was necessary. They do that because they've become mentally English.

They also promote the "gender neutral" form of verbs ending with the letter 'x' which is completely jarring, because except foreign loanwords Polish doesn't use this letter at all.

[–]RedEyedWarriorThe Evil Cishomo 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Is there pushback against this madness in Poland?