https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-alphabet-versus-the-goddess-the-conflict-between-word-and-image

is a book which points-out that language-cultures gendering EVERYTHING … don’t do women’s-equal-validity.

English, which doesn’t gender nouns, is where women’s rights has traction.

Languages program our ability to know meaning, & there are, same as in programming, consequences of every single language-design decision.

I’ve been told that to start a fight among French people, all you have to do is demand to know whether grapefruit ( pamplemousse ) is male or female.

( that’s for Quebec, it may not be true of France, or Lebanese, or African French )

The inability to get women’s-equal-validity to get anywhere in Latin America, fundamentally, comes down to the language disallowing equal-validity: everything’s gendered, & THAT IS THAT, & you are powerless to change established-categories…

A group of women is apparently a female-noun, but if you add ONE male, then suddenly the gender of the noun changes, to male.

Women’s-rights don’t have real traction in that kind of language-culture: it’ll never work or happen.

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