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		docandrew on March 3, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Banning words won’t make the world more just My guess is an English speaker was forced to take French or Spanish in college and struggled to remember the gender for a word like “bicycle” and decided the whole notion of gendered language was silly and should be abolished.

jimbokun on March 3, 2023 [–]

I am much more sympathetic to that argument than the people pretending it’s to avoid offense.

herewulf on March 3, 2023 | [–]

Shouldn't intentionally butchering someone else's non-English language be considered offensive?

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