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

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47. Completely agreed

It seems like there's a segment of activism that thinks they can just erase gender.

Yeah. Not in this lifetime or the next. Biology works far too strongly against it. As long as there are males and females, there's built in resistance to the attempt. You can try to change language - and authoritarian regimes know this in their soul. Change the language and punish those who don't go along. Language can create a reality. But history teaches us that artificial enforced construct always comes crashing down because human nature and biology will resist it.

Acceptance and authoritarian enforcement are two incredibly different things, and some parts of activism - very radical parts - either forgot that or never figured it out in the first place. And they're going to learn a very, very hard lesson when society and human nature snap back.

It doesn't have to be that way. But trends are more readily followed than the obvious these days, it seems.