Eight major producers of German-language news content are to use a bag of linguistic tricks to make their products more gender-neutral. Critics view the policy change as ridiculous catering to identity politics.
Like some other languages, German genders words and uses so-called generic masculine – the plural form for groups of individuals or items that are masculine by default. It’s similar to how, in English, for example, a group of US House representatives of either gender would until recently have been referred to as ‘congressmen’, but much more prevalent. Some argue that male-tilted language like this fosters the discrimination of women and non-binary people, and have been pushing for wider use of gender-neutral terms.
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