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Whats the obsession with not gendering things? There are differences between male and female behavior. Maybe not in this case, but I see a lot of people on Lemmy who wants genders to not be specified at all.
I like having genders. I like our differences. To me its normal. Im not going to change my language. Absolutely not going to say humans when I mean a male or a female.
Because it limits people. Its very often used negatively where xyz bad behavior is stereotyped (just one example of many, women being called bad drivers), and then that leads to negative consequences for them.
This leads to bias meeting people, and the imposition of social norms against certain behaviors.
When you don’t type behavior patterns as part of a group (such as gender), but instead generalize them as typical of humans in general, the mechanism that limits people instantly disappears.
Its not xyz group thats bad, its that people of all types of any group can be bad. Which helps you towards judging people as individuals.
You also lose the ability to understand the world. By removing typing ( I guess its called that?), you turn black and white into gray. You remove differences that are there, and you make the language less specific.
If someone asks you if your baby is a female or a male, you are feeling content saying its a human?
Or if someone asks you if their colleagues will be mostly male or female if they go into nursing, you will say it doesnt matter?
It does matter. Gender matters.
I don’t think anyone is saying remove all references to gender from our vocabulary
I think some people would like that actually. In Sweden where I live, a new gender neutral word called "hen" has been introduced as "human of unspecified gender", and its encouraged to use that instead of saying him or her, to avoid "bias". Which is what the previous poster talked about.