Peerless Should Language Be Non-gendered
Using gender-neutral language benefits everyone not just non-binary people.
Should language be non-gendered. However there are some examples which people may not have considered before. However this was not always the case according to Dr Tatman. The most obvious is the use of language that has a bias towards one of the sexes usually male for gender-neutral concepts as in my earlier example where a gender-neutral subject a doctor is assigned a masculine pronoun his patients.
Language should be non-gendered. Non-Gendered Languages - Are there any for English Speakers to learn. And there are many nouns including those referring to professions that dont have feminine versions.
Using masculine pronouns or nouns for mixed-gender groups or defaulting to hehim when a persons gender is unknown or unclear are typical examples of language that is not gender-inclusive. English has never really been a gender-neutral language. Romance languages like French Portuguese or Spanish for instance lost Latins neutral grammatical gender along the way.
Long-story short I find gendered nouns to be a huge unnecessary complication to languages. Do your words support gender equality and inclusion. Gender appears in most if not all languages but many assign a gender seemingly randomly to every noun in its lexicon.
And when it comes to grammatical gender thats really no different. Even small shifts in how we use language can advance social changeor signal change that may be on its way. Gender-inclusive or gender-neutral language is language that does not discriminate against gender identities andor groups.
But in languages whose grammar is traditionally based on. The language has no neutral grammatical gender. Every time I try one I just get frustrated and quit out of it.