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Gender and Terms of Address: Revisited
Màiread
Posts: 385
6/26/2016
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That's true, those words exist in English and without an obvious grammatical gender, but they are still cases of using a male term as if it is gender neutral (we could have adopted 'saboteuse', but the male version is always used when speaking in general or the group is mixed - so all actresses are female, but when you have both, it's actors, and we say 'inside the actors studio'). So, it's still pretty much using 'man' as if it meant 'person', it's just better hidden than in 'fireman', is all I'm saying. Personally I like glass-walker, but no solution is perfect.
And genuinely, I apologise if I seemed flippant. It is just that as someone who has trod this particular road before as a student I can speak from experience when I say the jokes get really wearing, really fast.
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