jk I'm all about that bread @danishcookies@computerfairi.es

The organisation which is charged with deciding on the language that the State will enforce is the French Academy.

In English, the reason your parents believe that "they/them" can't be used to refer to a single person, is because grammarians in the 18th century actively changed the language to make it more misogynistic, gendered, and boring.

When I say it's impossible to talk about someone in French without gendering them, this is not strictly true. There is an entire system of "inclusive writing", complete with neopronouns (there are no gender-neutral pronouns in what I'm going to call "classical French") to remedy the language's huge flaws.

But the use of gender-neutral language in France isn't simply a question of using the words to make them more commonplace. It's a political battle.

I absolutely hate how gendered French is, it's literally impossible to talk about someone without gendering them and it sucks

In English, when people talk about "prescriptivist versus descriptivist", they're usually talking about a theoretical debate between linguists. "Prescriptivists" in English are just people who will call you a pleb for using "literally" as an intensifier.

In France, the State uses its monopoly on violence to force the language it wants people to speak onto them. Prescriptivism is a form of systemic violence, wilfully carried out by the State.

i love dark souls, what a classic

my new project is changing every road sign that says "road work next X miles" to say "milfs" instead

periodic reminder that metroid fusion is the lastest mission in the metroid time line.

meaning that samus' arans's latest actions are directly against both the galactic government and the pirate criminal origination,

in short samus aran is an anarchist.

i’m not sure how it’s possible but my current gender is both of the people in this picture

I actually think that law enforcement should be difficult, and I think it should actually be possible to break the law.
-- Moxie Marlinspike

#anarchism #quote #bot

@danishcookies wine is just spicy grape juice

Reminder:

@danishcookies genderlifting is praxis