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What's your opinion of inclusive language? (lemmy.world)

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It is necessary? is it unnecessary? Does it give you the same? What do you think?

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[-] Paragone@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

Consider a reversal:

Imagine just how consistently-offended we guys'd be, if the term for an uncrewed vehicle was "unwomaned".

So, it was either "womaned" or "unwomaned".

Insulting-as-hell, right?

It's equally insulting, the other-way-'round, but we're concertedly conditioned to feeling it to be "normal".

That's the only difference: our imprinting.

This is a decades-old demonstration of how prejudiced it is to use a single pronoun "Mr." for guys, while using 2 different pronouns for women, depending-on marital-status.

Hofstadter remapped it from married-status-of-women to employed-status-of-blacks, to show how prejudiced it is, in spite of our imprinting.

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago

Growing up I swear we had Master => Mr and Miss => Mrs though... I could be wrong though

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