• @Dasus
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    24 hours ago

    So you’re saying you don’t believe women can be heroes?

    That’s super sexist.

    • @[email protected]
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      03 hours ago

      They can be, if they change their gender identity. Same way they’d become actors or waiters. Blame the 8 languages duct taped together that form English.

      • @Dasus
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        12 hours ago

        There’s no need. “An actor” / “a hero” is already a gender neutral term in common usage, no matter how archaic your inner world is or whatever conservative bumfucknowhere you live in.

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          So the male version of the word is the default? That’s sexist.

          Sometimes common usage is wrong. That’s the whole reason society is having a discussion about pronouns and gendered language. You need to do better, no matter how archaic your inner world is or whatever conservative bumfucknowhere you live in.

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            The lemma is the default.

            Sometimes common usage is wrong.

            Okay so what youre saying is that we should differentiate between male and female actors with specific words to… ensure heteronormativity in the way you see it? Despite feminists calling the exact opposite for several decades before you were even born?

            http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/weekender/scripts/weekender_actor_070406.pdf

            Then, if we jump forward to the 1970s and 1980s, women began to choose the term ‘actor’ instead of ‘actress’ as a direct result of the women’s movement and an awareness of gender bias in language. Women began to take back the term ‘actor’, and it’s often used today. Zoë Wannamaker explains that in the 1970s and 1980s there was ‘a stigma’ – a feeling that people disapproved – of being called an actress. This was because the word actress seemed to have the ‘connotation’, or suggested meaning, of being a prostitute

            So just so you know, you’re insisting on implying all women actors to be whores. Sexist as fuck

            You need to do better, no matter how archaic your inner world is or whatever conservative bumfucknowhere you live in.