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In Germany there was a funny incident recently: the Green political party decided to change all the wording in their publications to be gender neutral. In German often jobs have two names, somewhat like "captain" and "captainness" for male and female captains. And so on. They decided to change everything to "captain/ness".

The funny thing was that they properly gendered all positive personae appearing in their publications. But they forgot about the negative appearances.

So it would be "the captain/ness is steering the ship into the harbour" but "the captain is leaving the sinking ship".

So check your bias next time you read a story. It's telling that you don't even notice all the negative portrayals of men anymore.




> But they forgot about the negative appearances.

"Forgot".


What do you mean? Is it incorrect? I am not a native speaker of English.





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