If it was insanity, it'd be easier to understand her actions – she might not be completely completely in control of herself or aware of what she's doing. She knows what she's doing.

[+] Texas_Hangover@lemm.ee -6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The judge is a female, maybe read the article before spewing incorrect genders all over the place.

[–] interolivary@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whoop, good point. I did read the article, it's just that my native language has no grammatical gender so it's like stupid easy to slip up with this stuff

[–] teft@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone who has to learn the grammatical gender of nouns I feel for you. I’m constantly fucking up in my second language.

[–] interolivary@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Grammatical gender just feels so, well… pointless. Like, why should I have to care about what someone's gender is when I'm referring to them? If someone's gender is actually relevant somehow I can just use words like "woman" etc. to specify (eg if I need to point someone out in a crowd or whatever), but it's rarely relevant at all. Defaulting to "he" isn't too great either even though I do it myself too sometimes because it's so common and it was taught in school too etc., but it's neat that "they" is more popular nowadays.

I should actually probably just fucking ditch gendered pronouns altogether and use "they" most of the time – would feel more natural, and as bonus it would annoy conservatives