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About feminism by Nievaris

A friend of mine posted this yesterday on facebook:
"A scientist will read dozens of books in her lifetime but still believe there is a lot more to learn. A religious persons reads barely one book, and thinks they know it all." (that she made a mistake because of single/plural isn't important ^^)

Sooo...now feminists start to make everything into a female declaration after ranting about that men did that for a long time? Doesn't this make them the same?
Of course, a woman should get paid the same amount of money like a man in the same job and position, this is out of question but e.g. in Germany/Austria there is now a huge wave of making everything equal especially in spelling. The german language is indeed male-dominated when it comes to the declaration of things. In English there is 'the' which can mean everything. In German we have 'Der' (male), 'Die' (female) and 'Das' (neuter). And a lot of things are declared to be 'male' ("the saltshaker" is "der Salzstreuer", the teacher is "Der Lehrer", etc, if you get my drift?) Maybe it once meant that men dominated society but not anymore.
At least for me.
This were just names for things/jobs and even if there was a 'der', it was neuter for me. It was/is just a name, jeez.

And feminists now start to 'femalize' everything. It's like when you watch a movie about a pack of lions - and you know that there are female lions in the pack - but the narrator would say "a pack of lions and lionesses." like every fucking time! Of course there are also female lions but when you talk about lions it's still just only 'lions' - even if there are more of them. You don't need to point out every time that there are also female lions out there.

And this is how I feel when I need to write an essay or anything for university. Every time I need to point out when I write about teachers or pupils or students or scientists that there are females too (in German we put an -In (which is female) after every word like: LehrerInnen (teachers), StudentInnen (students) etc) I hope I'll make this clear for you out there what I mean XD

It's a fucking pain in the ass, I swear! And after all, I never met any woman out there (except for feminists) who really say that now with this they feel more acknowledged by society. No single woman! They were more like "Yeah, it's annoying but you get used to write this way." also I think for all the women out there who need to have an -In after every word just to say "Hah, now I'm in there, too." need to think if this is all they need to feel acknowledged by others, especially men. I also never met a man who said he needed this to be remembered that there are also women out there working as scientists, dentists or whatever.

Random rant is random but somehow this really pisses me off xD
And sorry for all the grammer/time mistakes, I have never talked about this stuff in English :'3

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    Fascinating... makes me wonder if there are any similar movements in other countries that have masculine and feminine articles. Writing in these languages during university was always a pain, because one of the few things our language does right is not utilize that particular quirk of describing a thing. There's plenty else wrong with English, but.. :P

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      I've learned Italian in school and they also have masculine/feminine articles (Lo (male) and La (female)) buuut I've never heard them complain. In Italian, if you have a group of people that's mixed (men and women) you take the plural of the male article. If you have only women you use the plural of the female article. But then again, maybe in the eyes of our feminists, Italy is way tooo dominated by men so it's clear that this happens if you've a plural form that contains both genders that it's used to be the male plural x.x

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      It exists in countries without articles as well, if they have noun genders with any relationship whatsoever to physical genders of people.

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    The odd conflation of noun genders (which have to do with declension classes) and physical genders (of people) confuses me.

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      The obvious solution is to drop all the unneeded -in forms, really. Just use 'der Lehrer' to refer to any teacher whatsoever and never use the spurious 'die Lehrerin'.

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        My speech but then again, in the eyes of a feminist, it would lead to 'forget' and 'oversee' that there are also women working in this job (at the moment the majority of them are women, actually, like in a lof of other 'social jobs'). And I think they somehow forget that this is just the name for a job and - as for me - it was always some neuter declaration. I fucking know that there are women working as teachers xD

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          I think it's due to the naming convention. If they were called Declension I, Declension II, Declension III nouns this wouldn't be an issue. It's as annoying as hearing people say that you should use a strong verb wherever possible to give your writing more power. It's just a conjugation system XD