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  • Qwel@sopuli.xyztoMemes@sopuli.xyzwhy
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    “penis” is masculine while “bite” is feminine, too

    I would argue that “chauffeuse” for feminine drivers and “chauffeuse” for easy girls should be considered different words, homonyms, likely with separate etymologies. A feminine driver should be called a chauffeuse, and theorically an easy boy could be called a chauffeur. It will not happen because nobody uses the slur this way, but that’s unrelated to the grammatical structure of the language. Wouldn’t call it built-in.

    Words meanings always slide around and we have markers in some of them that determine whether the word describes a man or a women. Since we treat women and men differently, it’s not surprising that the feminine variant might end up with different connotations than the masculine one. But the words in question do not have gender, they inherit the gender of who they describe. It’s a different thing, unrelated to the assignment of genders to objects

    To be clear, I am not defending the idea that you should give gender to things, nor that you should change the suffix in all the words that refer to women. I think it’s stupid and I wish we didn’t even have pronouns in the first place


  • Qwel@sopuli.xyztoMemes@sopuli.xyzwhy
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    You’ll be right 50% of the times. Or 33% in german. And it doesn’t match between languages. Like, “cat” is a she in german and a he in french. Often synonyms have different genders : une lettre/un courrier (both mean a mail).

    I think the issue is that you are searching your mind for correlations between gender and sexism-related, which is often easier than searching for non-correlation. If I ask you “quick, think of a singer that wears leather”, you’ll find one instantly. But if I ask “quick, find a singer that doesn’t wear leather” it takes a while, even though there more of them.

    If you want a better impression of the phenomenon, open a dictionary, go over words one by one and count the points.


    And also “organ” (the instrument) in french is male when singular and female when plural. “C’est un bel orgue” and “Ce sont de belles orgues”.



  • Qwel@sopuli.xyztoMemes@sopuli.xyzwhy
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    You will be understood, it will just give people a small pause.

    Sometimes it may cause confusion, like “the phone (he) went through the washing machine (she) and now <she/he> is broken” changes meaning if you get the pronoun wrong. But then if you are used to disambiguate thIs kind of situation - and you have to in english - it shouldn’t happen too often


  • Most of the errors aren’t so bad, but it’s definitely nice to correct them.


    You need to know Wikipedia’s system a bit though, because ChatGPT suggests these kind of things:

    Want me to draft a crisp correction note you can paste on the article’s talk page?

    Using LLMs when interacting with other editors is “strongly frowned upon”, and you can get banned if you refuse to stop. Especially if you are editing a lot of pages as you just discovered a lot of issues.


  • They published this blog post that lists all the projects they supported, and calls for the community to submit projects to support in a form.

    The blog post did not acknowledge the situation, but the list showed that they stopped supporting Omarchy and kept support for Hyprland. It was noted during the drama that Hyprland’s toxicity levels have dropped since they set up a moderation team. Their reputation might not represent them as they are currently.

    I stopped following the events at this point, so if something happened after that, I’m not aware of it