Nah, I’ll just stay in Austria. xD
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agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 7 months agoCome 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.
dogsoahC@lemm.ee 7 months ago
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 7 months 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.
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 7 months 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.
flora_explora@beehaw.org 7 months 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.
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Yes, it is. It’s a grammatical construct. When someone said “alle Schüler” in the year 2000, they meant all students regardless of their genders. If some meant explicitly male students they’d said “alle männlichen Schüler” for clarity.