I speak English because of Colonialism so when I say this I say this as a person who does not know any other language. How is a language like Spanish or Portuguese even able to reform itself to be gender neutral when all the words are masculine or feminine and people look at you like a weirdo if you use the gender neutral versions. I’m not saying all gendered language is bad, but its wrong for an entire profession to gendered one way or another or to have gender be seen as a binary thing in the first place.
What I’m trying to say is, how do you do it?
Slightly relevant. Chinese is a gender neutral language. There weren’t even male or female pronouns, you’d have to explicitly gender the person
But one of the changes that resulted from European cultural hegemony was they introduced female and male versions for pronouns in the written characters in the early 20th century, even though the spoken word is still the same for any gender
The issue with this is now non-binary people lost their all-inclusive pronoun, and there’s efforts to introduce a third gendered pronoun now…
Oftentimes when learning other languages with gendered pronouns, Chinese people will fuck up she and he because they’re used to using the same sound for all genders