Comment on Girl power

dogsoahC@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• SkyNTP@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I dunno. “Man of science” has a really nice ring to it. (“Woman of Science” too.)

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  • ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I agree! They both sound very prestigious.

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    • Klear@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They sound like they’re probably working on some rayguns or tesla coils.

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• agressivelyPassive@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Come to Germany then.

  German uses generic masculine grammatical gender and the state of Bavaria just banned the practice of “Gendern”, meaning use both forms (male and female).

  So you’d have to be referred to as male pretty much always.

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  • zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They didn’t ban the usage of both forms, they banned the usage of new forms, that try to combine masculine and feminine into a gender-neutral form, in administrative texts.

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    • RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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      • zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yes and no, language is how it’s used, not necessarily the rules someone once wrote down. The problem is if you have a generic form and you start using a different form for women the generic form stops being generic. Eventually everyone will settle on some new generic form or resurrect some old form and we can move on to other problems.

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      • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        What? How can this be true? “The generic masculine is gender-neutral”? You see where you made a mistake? German and most other languages revolve around a pretty strong gender hierarchy and patriarchy. So no, its default is definitely not gender neutral! I would be in favor of a true neutral. But we would have to come up with a new form.

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  • dogsoahC@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Nah, I’ll just stay in Austria. xD

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• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  So you’re a man of science

  Can I feel your bicep?

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  • dogsoahC@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Sadly, no. My chest musculature is so enoumous that it completely envelops me. Kind of impractical in the lab sometimes, but that’s the things you do for more testosterone.

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  • dogsoahC@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Nice username btw. xD

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    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Thank you

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