#gendered words

[starrylighter]

MY GENDER MAY BE GENDERED-- wait... I said that wrong...

MY NATIVE LANGUAGE MAY BE GENDERED, BUT AT LEAST IT'S NOT FEMININE/MASCULINE

IT'S

NO GENDER/

YES GENDER

FOR ANYONE WONDERING: NONBINARY IS A YES-GENDERED WORD.

[aromanticduck]

Are you a man, a boy, or a guy?

I'm none of these

I'm a man but not a boy or a guy

I'm a boy but not a man or a guy

I'm a guy but not a boy or a man

I'm a man and a boy but not a guy

I'm a man and a guy but not a boy

I'm a guy and a boy but not a man

I'm all three of these

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Voting ended onMar 24, 2024

[ukrainian-offical]

For the longest time, historically, it was considered rude to talk about strangers, superiors, and elders in singular. You were supposed to yse plural. Now, that stopped during the Soviet era, for reasons. But i want to bring it back for a brand new, very woke reason. You see, singular pronouns are gendered. But not the plurals. And, well. Awkward situations may arise from assuming gender.

[cepheusgalaxy]

here are some cute portuguese words if you guys want to know

or maybe use as names

Água - water

Amante - lover

Amor - love

Amora - blackberry

Azul - blue

Bolo - cake

Bosque - a smaller forest, basically

Breu - true darkness

Castelo - castle

Celeste - related to the sky; also can be translated as "heavenly", since "Heaven" in portuguese would be sky (another option is "celestial" which is literally "heavenly")

Céu - sky, or maybe Heaven, depending on the context

Chá - tea

Coração - heart

Doce - sweet, or a candy

Dourado - golden

Erva - herb

Estrela - star

Fé - faith

Folha - leaf

Fogo - fire

Força - strenght

Fruta-do-bosque - berry, but literal translation? forest fruit

Hora - hour, or sometimes, time (like, que horas são?/what time it is?)

Joia - jewel

Lapis - pencil

Laranja - orange (both the fruit and the color)

Lindo (masculine) / Linda (feminine) / Linde (neutral) - beautiful

Lobo (masculine) / Loba (feminine) / Lobe (neutral) - wolf

Lua - moon

Luz - light

Mar - sea

Maravilha - wonder (like wonderful)

Marrom - brown

Mel - honey

Menina - girl

Menine - neutral equivalent for boy and girl

Menino - boy

Mirtilo - blueberry

Morango - strawberry

Negro (m) / Negra (f) / Negre (n) - dark

Ouro - gold

Palavra - word

Pão - bread

Praia - beach

Prata - silver

Primavera - spring

Preto - black

Raio - lightning

Rio - river

Rosa - pink (but also stands for rose)

Selva - jungle

Sol - sun

Sopro - breath

Suave - smooth/soft

Selvagem - wild

Terra - earth

Trovão - thunder

Uva - grape

Vento - wind

Verão - summer

Verde - green

Vermelho - red

Viajante - traveler

Viagem - travel

Vida - life

Inseto - bug

(below, there are some observations about my language and its gendered words, which we have a lot. feel free to ignore if it's not of your interest)

As you can see, most adjectives are gendered; like "brava" (femimine) and "bravo" (masculine) -- both meaning "angry/pissed off". Mostly, the letters "o" and "a" are used to define if a word is masculine or feminine, respectively, and there aren't neutral alternatives for them (few exeptions are adjectives like "inteligente [smart]" and "estudante [student]" or "forte [strong]" which are completely neutral, like the english ones). Then we have the official gendered pronouns of portuguese language, "ele (he)" and "ela (she)". Lately, though, people are agreeing on the inclusion of neutral alternatives, using the letter "e" in these gendered words, instead of "a" or "o"

Ex: Brave (neutral alternative for brava/bravo) - angry

Cuidadose (neutral alternative for cuidadoso/cuidadosa) - careful

Esperte (neutral alternative for esperto/esperta) - another word for "smart"

And as some masculine words use "e" instead of "o", (like "ele"), the neutral equivalent would use "u" (becoming "elu", the neutral pronoun in portuguese language, like the singular they in english).

Fun fact: The word "the" also is gendered in portuguese, being divided in "o" (masculine) and "a" (feminine): [a mulher era inteligente - the woman was smart] or [o homem era lindo - the man was beautiful]. The neutral equivalent of it would be "ê" (ê menine era divertido - the enby was funny).

Another fun fact: There is a thing in portuguese which we call "nominal concordance" (concordância nominal), which is basically that every word in the sentence has to agree in number and gender with the noun. In english, most of the words are naturally neutral, but not in portuguese. Basically, nominal concordance means that you can't put a masculine adjective to describe a feminine noun. And I don't mean just "woman", "girl" and words like that. Many things in portuguese, like normal objects, also are put like fem or masc, since we don't have the pronoun "it". "Door" would be a feminine noun. Just as "mug", "shirt" or "window". So we use feminine adjectives when refering to such objects. Ex: A porta estava aberta. (The door was open - pink are the feminine words. Door is already feminine.) - O portão estava aberto. (The gate was open - blue are the masculine words. Gate is already masculine.)

Yet another fun fact: When we are talking of a plural, and in that plural we have both masculine and feminine members, the masculine stands out (This is actually because the language is mysoginist but forget that for a minute). In english, you have "they", right? In portuguese, not. We have gendered plurals! The most dumbest thing in the word, actually. Eles - plural of "he". If you're talking about a bunch of man, instead of saying, "they", you say "eles". Elas - plural of "she". Talking about a bunch of woman, "elas". So, when we put a woman and a men (pronoun conforming) in a group and talk about them, we don't say, he and she, as we miss the "they". We say "eles", the masculine plural. Because the masculine stands out. That's the rule: if in a plural there's at least one masculine noun, no matter if there are 99 fems, the nominal concordance might be masculine.

One more fun fact: While the word "person" (pessoa) is technically feminine in portuguese, you can use it to refer to people of any gender/pronouns, since it's pretty neutral, after all. Even if you got to use feminine words with it because of nominal concordance.

One more: most colors, even when used as adjectives, don't have gendered variations. Like blue - azul. You can say that a man or a woman are blue (don't ask why) without having to change the word. Some exeptions are red (vermelho/vermelha) and purple (roxo/roxa).

[the-fridge-is-on-fire]

Terms like boyfriend and girlfriend, wife, husband, etc etc have lost any binary meaning to me

“Shes my husband” that’s great Steve keep it up

Gendered words, and roles, and gender as a whole are made up so fuck it do what u want to confuse the cishets

[thesevenumbrellas]

Just saw a post about using bro/ dude and how that might offend trans people. Most of the notes were like “I use those words gender neutrally but of course I’d stop if asked.”

Which is nice and all, but I don’t think it should be up to the trans person (or anyone who doesn’t like the terms) to speak up if they’re offended.

Not saying we should never use the terms bro or dude. I use them a lot. But I’m saying we shouldn’t be putting the responsibility squarely on other’s shoulders.

Use your own judgment I guess it what I’m trying to say? And just because you’re offering someone an out doesn’t mean it’s no longer your responsibility.

Just cuz I’ve seen a lot of posts with similar ideas of “if I’m making a trans person uncomfortable of course they can tell me” but they shouldn’t have to and also that rule doesn’t apply to everyone so how do trans people irl know? Us cis people have to start taking responsibility....

[genderhexcomix]

It Hits Different

If I haven’t mentioned it before, I work in a school as a teaching assistant. I’m not out there, and I was assigned female at birth, so usually the kids call me ‘miss’. And weirdly enough I don’t actually mind. In that context, it just feels like a way to say ‘you = teacher’ that just happens to come in a gendered flavour. I’d be just as content with ‘sir’, but nobody uses that because I don’t look male.

However if anyone tries to call me that in a non-school related place, it feels gross and wrong and I hate it. Because when it’s no longer about my role in school, it becomes more about gender. Luckily, where I live, calling random people ‘sir’ and ‘miss’ and ‘madam’ in public isn’t common. It’s not considered necessary for good manners unless you’re somewhere fancy.

It would be nice to have a neutral equivalent, though.

[a-real-fast-goose]

look at that high-waisted spanish language it’s got feminine hips