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Wait until you hear about languages where everything is gendered.
We're currently debating, whether BürgerInnen, Bürger:innen or "Bürgerinnen und Bürger" is the proper way to address all citizens. This is not even about anything LGBTQ, it's simply acknowledgement of the concept of non-male people (which is really hard for some conservatives).
Or, you know. Just Bürger, the generic masculinum. That all-inclusive. And it worked for a long time. It's only because some snowflakes thought they needed something to complain about that we're having this whole debate.
women right? so annoying...
I wouldn't mind a generic feminimum just as I don't mind a generic masculinum. Grammatical gender doesn't have anything to do with actual gender. It's just a quirk of the language.