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How do they handle Latin derived languages like Spanish whose nouns are ether male or female?
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg brought gales of laughter at her old law school Friday when she explained why she started using the term gender discrimination instead of sex discrimination.
“I owe it all to my secretary at Columbia Law School, who said, ‘I’m typing all these briefs and articles for you and the word sex, sex, sex is on every page,’ ” Ginsburg said.
“Don’t you know that those nine men (on the Supreme Court)--they hear that word, and their first association is not the way you want them to be thinking? Why don’t you use the word gender? It is a grammatical term and it will ward off distracting associations.’ ”
How do they handle Latin derived languages like Spanish whose nouns are ether male or female?
“Manhole” would be changed to “maintenance hole,” “manpower” would be changed to “human effort” and “sorority” or “fraternity” would be changed to “collegiate Greek system residence,” according to the ordinance.
Rigel Robinson, the sponsor of the new rules: “Gender-neutral language creates a lot of room to acknowledge that it’s not just men running the country.”
SEE: https://www.breitbart.com/local/2019/07/18/berkeley-city-council-votes-to-remove-gendered-language-from-city-codes/