Genders and gender language: Do they reflect the relationships? – Culture

The argument about gender language may be raging because the language is changing – but not the circumstances in which it is spoken.

Ah, the gender language: Actually, it should serve to make many people happier and to give them a feeling of justice and acceptance. But almost everywhere that forms of these newer ways of speaking or writing, which are intended as instruments of inclusion, appear, they lead to frustration and bickering. The recent case: In Berlin, a father sued his daughters’ schools because gender-appropriate language was supposed to be compulsory there.