grammatical gender doesn’t actually have anything to do with social gender, it’s just a very dumb piece of terminology.
There’s no pattern to it because it’s just a thing that happened, “mädchen” is neuter because very few people think of nouns as having societal gender connections, they just use whatever grammar they grew up with and sounds right.
you talk about manufactured outrage but dude, you’re doing the same thing!
gender in german is a mess and german is either unequipped to communicate gender neutrally in an inclusive way or the extensions that would enable it are heavily being pushed against. this is a very obvious reality and it deserves anger by those negatively affected by it. my outrage is not manufactured by rightwing actors, it comes from my lived experience as someone affected. on that note, please do not dude me.
gramatical gender being random and meaningless is an annoyance, making german a lot harder to learn. you are right, this is distinct from gender justice but it is an annoyance with the german language and it contributes to gender in german being a mess.
and it just feels like a cruel joke, when your language does actually have a neutral form but that form is considered dehumanizing when used for people.
grammatical gender doesn’t actually have anything to do with social gender, it’s just a very dumb piece of terminology.
There’s no pattern to it because it’s just a thing that happened, “mädchen” is neuter because very few people think of nouns as having societal gender connections, they just use whatever grammar they grew up with and sounds right.
you talk about manufactured outrage but dude, you’re doing the same thing!
“Mädchen” is neutrum because it is diminutive of “Magd” and the diminutive is neutrum.
gender in german is a mess and german is either unequipped to communicate gender neutrally in an inclusive way or the extensions that would enable it are heavily being pushed against. this is a very obvious reality and it deserves anger by those negatively affected by it. my outrage is not manufactured by rightwing actors, it comes from my lived experience as someone affected. on that note, please do not dude me.
gramatical gender being random and meaningless is an annoyance, making german a lot harder to learn. you are right, this is distinct from gender justice but it is an annoyance with the german language and it contributes to gender in german being a mess.
and it just feels like a cruel joke, when your language does actually have a neutral form but that form is considered dehumanizing when used for people.