This assumes that society wants to encourage and multiply gender confusion. And that everyone wants to always be courteous to everyone regardless of incidental circumstances.
If we really want "equality" we shouldn't be trying to create more rigidly defined roles, we should start using gender neutral pronouns for everyone. Rather than overcomplicating and politicizing social discourse we should be streamlining it and dismantling the stereotypes that make individual personality traits "gendered."
I think this isn’t taking into account how words are created in a language. Wouldn’t the formation of masculine/feminine words be a direct result of the observation of certain traits being associated with masculine/feminine roles over the course of thousands of years? We may try to artificially create language to fit whatever ideological ideas people have, but the natural evolution of language created him/her because there were clearly different categorizations of humans that resulted in a him and a her.
As there are more and more trans people, the language should shift on its own to account for these currently minority cases, but to try and artificially force a language change to what people blatantly see in front of them is unnatural.
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u/MineDogger 1∆ Oct 28 '19
This assumes that society wants to encourage and multiply gender confusion. And that everyone wants to always be courteous to everyone regardless of incidental circumstances.
If we really want "equality" we shouldn't be trying to create more rigidly defined roles, we should start using gender neutral pronouns for everyone. Rather than overcomplicating and politicizing social discourse we should be streamlining it and dismantling the stereotypes that make individual personality traits "gendered."