I was watching pro golf coverage on the news and it seems so odd that men and women compete separately - same goes with pro bowling. Just seems weird to me that a game of skill is gendered when you can’t even raise an argument that someone might have an advantage because of what’s between their legs.

    • CylustheVirus@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      And the German language! Mark Twain has a whole essay about it.

      “Every noun has a gender, and there is no sense or system in the distribution; so the gender of each must be learned separately and by heart. There is no other way. To do this one has to have a memory like a memorandum-book. In German, a young lady has no sex, while a turnip has. Think what overwrought reverence that shows for the turnip, and what callous disrespect for the girl. See how it looks in print – I translate this from a conversation in one of the best of the German Sunday-school books:

      Gretchen: “Wilhelm, where is the turnip?”

      Wilhelm: “She has gone to the kitchen.”

      Gretchen: “Where is the accomplished and beautiful English maiden?”

      Wilhelm. "It has gone to the opera.”

      • HelixTitan@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        Counter counter argument: English is ideal with gender neutral, allowing for it easily be learned, allowing it to be the best for programming etc. English doesnt need the silly gendering of like every other language, and by being neutral it is inherently inclusive imo