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Which is your gender?
Thread starterPlaco
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I looked to see if such a thread existed and I expected to find it but I have to say that I didn't find what I wanted so I'll have to open it, one on age was recently done so here I'll only ask for gender, obviously I'll put a third option for non-binary people.
If anyone in real life asked me Id say I'm a woman, but really I believe the concept of gender is rooted n exploitation and oppression. and that the fact we came up with so many gendered words and concepts shows that regardless of how we feel about sexism, homophobia, or any other gender related oppression, we still act as if there's something worthy of making a category for. When really it doesn't define us, and regardless of your political category as a man or a woman, you can still do whatever you'd like as if you aren't bound to gender roles.
The reason behind gendered words is likely more complex than just "oppression". They arose and stayed part of language because in some way they were linguistically useful, such as helping to provide better context clues. This is especially the case when talking about languages that heavily rely on grammatical gender, such as French or Italian. You have to remember that language is complex and certain grammatical rules don't usually arise because people consciously decide everyone should speak/sign/write this way instead of that way. Oftentimes these rules come along naturally over the course of linguistic evolution.
Honestly, this video explains it much better than I can:
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