The country is breaking apart but I guess is more important to avoid using feminine expressions on official papers that make us look homo or something

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    8 months ago

    Counterpoint: gendered languages are fucking stupid. A table does not have a gender, why should its word?

    The only advantage I’ve ever heard of is if you’re referring to a person, like if there’s two teachers, one male and one female, you can say profesor or profesora to indicate which one you’re talking about, but that seems like a very small advantage compared to the downsides (always having to say niños y niñas, for example, or remembering whether a hospital is masculine or feminine, or how you should gender loanwords).

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      8 months ago

      Gender in words have to do with grammar, not sex. It is pretty much a classification. Other languages instead of using masculine/feminine use strong/weak. Again nothing to do with sex but grammar and which group they belong.