#genderedlanguage — Public Fediverse posts on home.social

Irene Elmerot @[email protected] · 2026-05-27 · 12:00 UTC

Attending a seminar with Julia Tibblin on gender-neutral language and its effects on readers in French!
Her different studies here:
https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/julia-tibblin/publications/

#genderneutral
#GenderedLanguage

#genderneutral #genderedlanguage

𖥔.ཐི༑ Alexa ༑ཋྀ.𖥔 @[email protected] · 2025-05-31 · 09:55 UTC

I know it’s hard because it’s a learned behavior (and I’m far from perfect myself,) but people need to stop saying ‘women and nonbinary people’ when what they mean is women and other assigned female folks. Assigned male enby people exist and that kind of language doesn’t help them.

#Ramblings #gender #genders #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #nonbinary #gendered-language #NB #enbies #enby #gender-talk #queer

#ramblings #gender #genders #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia

Irene Elmerot @[email protected] · 2025-04-01 · 15:33 UTC

Linguists of the Fediverse: the usage of "they" as a gender-neutral pronoun, is it used with a singular or plural verb?
#genders
#GenderedLanguage
@linguistics

#genders #genderedlanguage

perry @[email protected] · 2026-01-29 · 11:07 UTC

why do people say അവൻമാർ instead of അവർ in #malayalam?

#GenderedLanguage

#genderedlanguage #malayalam

Irene Elmerot @[email protected] · 2025-02-25 · 09:00 UTC

Interesting for #gender studies: When asking @Kagi to translate a Swedish sentence to Ukraininan, it gives both masculine and feminine form of the verb. This is absolutely correct, I did not give any gendered info. BUT: When translating the same sentence from English, it only gives the masculine form …
#GenderedLanguage
#GenderBias
#BiasedAI
@linguistics

#gender #genderedlanguage #genderbias #biasedai

Deborah Makarios @[email protected] · 2024-08-05 · 23:53 UTC

When did "ladies" become a more offensive way to refer to women than "females"?
"Females" don't even have to be human, making the word a popular choice with the aggressively misogynistic.
Guidelines for Olympic commentators say they shouldn't say "ladies" but should say "females" ("women" is also acceptable).
The argument seems to be that equality requires women & men to be referred to in the same ways - and the unspoken assumption is that how women are referred to should be fitted to the pattern of how men are referred to, not vice versa.
#Olympics #GenderedLanguage

#olympics #genderedlanguage

Cheshire @[email protected] · 2023-11-04 · 15:28 UTC

What’s in a word? How less-gendered language is faring across Europe
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/04/whats-in-a-word-how-less-gendered-language-is-faring-across-europe?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#GenderedLanguage
@SuneAuken

#genderedlanguage

Prof. Julia Leyda @[email protected] · 2023-04-13 · 08:14 UTC

OK what is the deal with using "females" instead of "women" or even "people?" As a writer I have always thought "female" as a noun applies to animals but not human beings, because we have words for that: girl or woman.

Wow that link is a monster--will edit this post if it doesn't work.

Is "females" now the preferred unbiased term? (Genuinely baffled, not being snarky).

#language #GenderedLanguage #UnbiasedLanguage

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/us/kansas-officer-sexual-assaults-guilty-plea.html?unlocked_article_code=dyHsKXt0xcE1CZgFuzfLjqYKitbfgGbuT51fz1Rbox-R-LRYMpkJesQVJ79I38cjfJJZvGf4HlrTQEmUGgjHO-XYIU-aAS6ANxULuSomHSdLktHEsEijtYWEExmDWHfma7q0aAkTuqW9h7gtbNpplu-4mAue0rhG0pVxpiE62C7sNj2edaWPYmh68_kkye2j1_LAeluEMEIAn12BuFL1otkE86-nKF_UhifsNqMBf7C1YtROTNKJmLkP6LDikf3Rg5juiD7huah1sXZEmNAVcX18SuJz5rBt4bOHGLGTwW4N0S9azhF7t61VJcxlUvz8brt-JcNiAdbaV1aQ37vkccV1jR5BIty_cIXmSrPZQg&smid=url-share

#language #genderedlanguage #unbiasedlanguage