Are Indo-European languages sexist?

[blogen]

No, not, since the gender-differentiated grammar is not sexism.

Especially since the non gender-differentiated languages, the Finno-Ugric languages are the most "sexist" languages. For example the names of the professions! We have different words onto these expressions and these world are gender related and we make the female form of the basic, the man shape. For example the doctor is doktor and women form is doktornő (nő = women), or the actor is szinész, the women form is szinésznő, etc. and basically this is the situation at every profession name and we do not use the man world (férfi) in same situation. This is real sexism in a non-indoeuropean language where the grammatical gender not exist.

But finally, who cares! This is irrevelant, except in the Scandinavian lunatic peninsula.

[Trogdor]

I seriously doubt that.

[Vasconcelos]

This is the silliest thing I've read since preemptive castration or drugging racists.

[Dombra]

Dumb thread? Yes. But it did not deserve all those thumb downs, it is much too silly

[Corvus]

Dumb thread? Yes. But it did not deserve all those thumb downs, it is much too silly

It actually deserves a nomination for the Thread of the year, or even Thread of the decade

[Roy]

No. Why abandon language accuracy for absurd political correctness? If the Moon is female for Latin speakers and male for Germans, so be it.

To me it's outright idiotic. I mean all these tendencies to invent new terms just for the sake of equality and the desires of feminists. So now we see such words like ''ministra'' or ''premierka'' used for female ministers or our current Prime Minister. This newspeak is annoying as we have normal equivalents like ''Pani minister'' or ''Pani premier'' but there are some who now claim that those reinforce the stereotypes and should be abandoned.

Because most IE languages have one pronoun for HE and one for SHE, while a few languages from other families, such as Finnish or Turkish, have the same pronoun for both genders. This is the level.

Trying to be politically correct is even more absurd when you realize that what is PC in a language is not in the other. In English, you see women wishing to be called 'actor' and not 'actress' because apparently it's sexist. While in the Romance languages, the sexist thing is not having a female version of the profession for women. So at the end of the day, better say things as you've always said them and be understood.

It's stupid either. So what? Should we abandon all grammatic determiners of sex and pretend that we are hermaphrodites or something?

[KawaiiKawaii]

Actually gendered nouns (like in French masculine and feminine nouns, or in German neutral, feminine or masculine nouns) are not a PIE feature. If I remember correctly, PIE actually had a system where nouns were categorized in animate and inanimate (similar to what you have in North Germanic languages).

Gendered nouns developed much later. Troll topic anyway.

[B01AB20]

So what? Should we abandon all grammatic determiners of sex and pretend that we are hermaphrodites or something?

exactly!!!

well, at least one person has understood something about progressiveness and feminism.

and in the same line, what should we do in order to prevent racism in a progressive society? :mmmm:

exactly!!! all people should be like pardos of Brazil, very mixed and at the same time very similar to each other pardo.

isn't it worderful??, the progressive way of thinking?? , yeah of course it is, what happens is that all of you are a bunch of fascists and racists nazis, that's why you don't appreciate the progressive way of thinking.

[safinator]

Never expected the day i'd read something so silly on Apricity, you might have better luck on TUMBLR with your "ideas"

[just]

What? Indo-European languages are the most superior somehow.