'Françaises, Français': Why the French language need not be so sexist

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17. This is like the LatinX thing

It was pushed by a very small group of activists, then people trying to prove how "woke" they were started shuffling it into the mainstream.

I have yet to meet a single Latino in my friends and family group who likes or uses that term. They hate it and abjectly refuse to bother about it. You know who I see use it most? White people. It's ironic, really. White people need to "help" Latinos by messing with a language they are perfectly content with.

Spanish is a highly gendered language, but no one really cares. Seriously. No. One. Cares. Except a cohort of very loud people on Twitter and in certain segments of academia.

English is gendered, but only in fairly minor ways when you're talking about nouns and adjectives. And even then, we've started just switching to masculine nouns for everyone as time goes on. For example, the word "actress" has been getting faded out more and more. If you read or watch interviews these days, you'll notice women are simply referred to as "actors" now. Which is fine. It's not a fundamental change in language, and it makes everyone non-gendered and equal.

But the attacks on language are suspect. It has a strong authoritarian bend to it. Meh, no thanks. People can express themselves as they will without the language cops descending upon them. Again, almost no one actually cares about this shit.