Emmanuel Macron has urged France not to “give in to the spirit of the times” and reject gender-inclusive writing in order to safeguard the French language. The Telegraph has more.
“In French, the masculine is neutral. We don’t need to add points in the middle of words or hyphens to make it readable,” said the French President at the opening of a new language centre in the town of Villers-Cotterêts, about 50 miles northeast of Paris, on Monday.
The French Senate will discuss banning gender-inclusive writing on Monday evening, in order to “protect” the French language. This move reopens a long-standing debate that has divided the country between Right-leaning language purists versus the Left and feminists.
Under the proposal tabled by a Republican senator, gender-inclusive writing would be banned in administrative documents including job contracts, job adverts, internal company regulations and all legal documents.
The bill would also ban inclusive writing in the national education code, doubling down on an existing 2021 directive. Documents written in gender-neutral language would be considered null and void.
In French, all nouns are either masculine and feminine and the written endings of nouns, adjectives and verbs must reflect the gender of the object or person in question. But when a noun involves both men and women, the default spelling is in the masculine in accordance with the long-taught rule: “Masculine always wins.”
French culture vs le wokeism. Who will come out on top?
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Protecting the language is absolutely crucial. They twist our language, they emasculate us all.
Now, Monsieur Macron, what about protecting the children from this evil cult? Is the whole subject going to be eradicated from the textbooks, too? S’il vous plait?
PS are you up to date with your
poisonous jabsCOVID vaccines?I am up to date with the mRNA ju-ju – I’m on to my 6th not having a jab.
This man is irrelevant except as an emblem and a nuisance but the attack on masculinity is very real and it is way deeper than just the legacy of demented Gallic philosophy from the 1960s percolating downwards. You look at photos from the 1970s when the sun was still yellow and you had men with deeply luxuriant hairy chests with a swagger in their movement. Incandescent with testosterone and not afraid to show it. These days if you are a man and you look at yourself naked in a full length mirror you might feel very sad but just remember that you are the victim and that monstrosity is a result of their tampering. Even in consumer goods, aftershaves like Brut 33 and Old Spice are pale spectres of their former selves. Even among Latin men it really has gone. Testosterone levels increase with exposure to certain frequencies in sunlight.
Brut and Old Spice as I remember separated the men from the boys.
Brut – splash it on all over – was the favourite of peripubescent boys (avoided having a bath), Old Spice for the more mature man old enough to grow a beard.
I somehow doubt that they are having the same battle over masculine and feminine nouns in the Arabic language.
That might be the only example from that region we can all support.
“Masculine Always Wins”: Macron Rebuffs Gender-Inclusive Language Reforms”
26000 quid on makeup a month! Ponce!
Multiculturalism is inviting the enemy in!
“Act in haste, repent at your leisure”
Thank Heaven for little girls/ For Little girls get gigger everyday/Thank heaven for Little Girls/They grow up in the most delightful way.———-I am singing it using my best French accent. ——–Yes thank heaven for girls and lets keep it that way. And let boys just be boys.
…and I’m now picturing you as a debonair Maurice Chevalier!!!😆
I am actually more of a “Saturday Nights alright for Fighting” type but Elton doesn’t have a French accent
Gender-neutral language is also racist. What Macron says applies to all romance languages, including Spanish, Portugese, Italian, Romanian, the languages spoken most in the world’s poorest countries. It’s wrong to pollute the languages most people speak by injecting left-wing propaganda. When you control the language you control the culture. Don’t allow it.
Only English is gender neutral – since about a thousand years ago – the languages you mention all have gender… masculine, feminine, neuter depending on which language.
Gender and sex are not the same thing, despite attempts to conflate them.
Words have gender due to grammar rules, sex – male and female – is due to Physics which determines biochemical reactions at the moment of conception.
The laws of Physics are immutable.
And the languages you mention belong to people of the same race – so cannot be racist.
Gender is pertinent ONLY in grammar – and there are three: masculine, feminine and neuter depending on the language.
In Humans there are two sexes, male and female. In speech these are identified by specific pronouns for males and females and for objects.
It’s very simple.
I choose which I use; nobody tells me which I must use.