English - Anomalies & Changes
This is MY language. There is an element of speakers who reject the “gender” pronouns. Moreover, the women’s movement of 50 years ago introduced, and was engendered in English, the deletion of words that, to the advocates, ended in “..man”: fireman, policeman, chairman, and the list continues.
What these advocates proposed: “policewoman, firefighter woman, chairwoman, spokeswoman”.
It is an error of “social justice” in making/giving equal status to women. People want to be accepted, liked and popular. The unspoken “social contract”. Young women who were addressed as “Miss” but, because of Gloria Steinem’s magazine, “MS”, the former address is largely out of fashion.
It works but changing parts of language, based on Ignorance is foolish. But language changes with usage. It depends on WHO uses an expression, a word, a verb…used by a popular person, it catches on.
Gender in language exists in many languages.
