I know it’s hard because it’s a learned behavior (and I’m far from perfect myself,) but people need to stop saying ‘women and nonbinary people’ when what they mean is women and other assigned female folks. Assigned male enby people exist and that kind of language doesn’t help them.

person on a french-learning question forum: "How is the house feminine?"

Well easy: The patriarchy doesn’t want women to leave it.

Seriously, it’s interesting how I can remember the grammatical gender of most words correctly by either "same as in german" or some "what would patriarchy do" thought …

#LearningFrench #GenderedLanguage

OK what is the deal with using "females" instead of "women" or even "people?" As a writer I have always thought "female" as a noun applies to animals but not human beings, because we have words for that: girl or woman.

Wow that link is a monster--will edit this post if it doesn't work.

Is "females" now the preferred unbiased term? (Genuinely baffled, not being snarky).

#language #GenderedLanguage #UnbiasedLanguage

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