• @[email protected]
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      328 months ago

      Yes, female in german, idc about french but i suspect it’s the same.

      Is it stupid we’ve done this for all nouns? Yes.

      Do I judge you subconsciously if you use it wrong? Also unfortunately yes.

      • @[email protected]
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        In French, we have different synonyms for that :

        • “machine à laver”, which is female
        • “lave-linge”, which is male
        • “laveuse” (Québec only), which is female

        Why do they have different gender for the same thing ? Because, insert your favorite expletive word, that’s why !

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              Meanwhile, men have for a long time been the ones responsible for putting food on the table, paying the rent, building houses, cars, etc. and maintaining them, going to war to defend the country, mowing the lawn, and keeping society running.

              Also, hilarious of you to accuse me of misogyny and then basically saying “women are responsible for doing traditionally female jobs”. LOL.

              LMAO, even.

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                  Perhaps in the past, but nowadays women are totally free to become soldiers, farmers, butchers, construction workers, electricians, bus drivers, or garbage collectors. Yet all of those jobs are still overwhelmingly done by men. And if men didn’t do them, there would be no houses, no roads, no electricity, and no food.

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      Where do you think new washing machines come from? The sturgeon brings them? Don’t be ridiculous! They are far too heavy!

      • Dr. Coomer
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        28 months ago

        I thought they came from pet hair clumping up in another washing machine.

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      Also in German, there’s a neutral gender which applies to diminutive nouns ending in -chen, which means that men are male (Der Mann), women are female (Die Frau), boys are male (Der Junge) and girls are neutral (Das Mädchen). Which is fun to learn for the first time lol.

    • @Addition
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      Yes, but only in Europe.