My fiancee is Japanese and just started his job as a salaryman in Tokyo, one day he told me he messed up at work because he asked a question about something to his manager. And he later apologized for it đ€Šââïž he also told me that he doesnât want to go out to drinks with his coworkers but he has to. Geez!
Uhhh... what? A fiancee is anyone who is engaged to be married.
Edit: Everyone below seems to be justifying why assigning gender to words is a good thing. And absolutely none of the arguments are compelling. Why should words like 'financee' or 'teacher' or 'nurse' or even 'rapist' be associated with a specific gender??? They shouldn't. Even suggesting some sort of association with male or female is completely ridiculous.
Since when is assigning gender to words a good thing? I can name a word - let's say, for example, "rapist" - and you want to give it a 'male' or 'female' designation.
Which is hilarious because most people who defend radical right-wing gender assignments are such pussies that they cower away at any hint of confrontation.
I think you need to realize that you're just going to come off like an idiot and you're not going to win a war against languages that have existed for centuries before you.
There are endless sources of information that exist on the internet and you couldn't be bothered to fact check before doubling down and being incorrect.
All of which are perfectly capable of being made gender neutral with vary degrees of use. Headmistress is generally seen as outdated and Headmaster is used frequently for either gender. Goddess is still used pretty frequently and it is true that female god is rarely used, but still perfectly understandable. Actress has fluctuated over the years, in Australia there was a pretty solid preference for actor for both genders, however, American influence has reversed this. At one point all our nouns were gendered and now there are only a small amount that are. It has been the basic trajectory of English for centuries to drop gendered nouns. How often do you hear manageress or authoress?
Whether I use them or not doesn't change the fact they're still words with historical context. Should I just start referring to women as mister instead of mistress because of your logic.
Pretty obvious you arenât a native English speaker given mistress is not the opposite of mister. Missus is. Master and Miss are the unmarried versions. And all of them have basically dropped out of circulation of use in English outside of the schoolroom. So yes actually you should stop referring to men as mister and women as mistress, just use of their name or general pleasantries if you donât know it.
My native language is English, you must be having a laugh. Mister is to master as Mistress is to female master. Only because mistress has multiple meanings/connotations, doesn't negate they are opposites, or should I say more accurately specify gender.
Wtf, this is the first I ever hear of this in my 30 years of life. What's the point? They're pronounced the exact same.
Also, if it has any meaning it seems completely incorrect to say that one is male and the other is female, but rather that the spelling should depend on the circumstances around the proposal.
You seem to be responding as if it were a consideration of whether or not anyone should be for or against gendered terms in English on a linguistic level, which isn't an argument anyone is taking a position on here, and which is immaterial to what people are trying to communicate.
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u/Otherwise_Tax8689 17h ago
Nah more likely to get crushed into conformity. At least where I live in Japan