Re:Why American men are getting less marriageable
by eeZah7Ux on Saturday January 27, 2018 @06:49PM
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You cannot find a better a better sentence than one starting with "Women must also"?
How about: "Some people, regardless of gender, can perpetuate or reinforce gender roles through speech, action or inaction."
"Some people should be willing to give up traditional gender roles."
Re:Why American men are getting less marriageable
by Toast_25 on Monday January 29, 2018 @10:14AM
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I think you're abstracting this a little too much. The sentence you constructed would be useful to describe this in general, but in this case PuffinBlue is talking about a specific case where this language isn't entirely useful.
I agree that that type of language should be used in general (and I make a concerted effort to use it, even in my native tongue where sex is strongly denoted), but IMHO it's useless when describing specific scenarios.
I see this brought up a lot, and I get it: we SHOULD be able to treat everybody equally regardless of the bits between their legs, but we haven't gotten there yet.
I think it's counterproductive to be pedantic about language when it's serving a purpose and not hurting anyone. If someone brings up a better way to express this type of thing, then I'll be in total agreement, but I haven't found a better way to do so using the english language.