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MadameButterfly

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24. Hey, his article is about the existential threat to democracy and we're getting worked up over

Mon Sep 29, 2025, 08:31 AM

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the gender he assigns to a non-gendered entity?

Language is imperfect--it isn't easy to always include both genders. Is a country a he or a she? To me it's a she, but that's just my gut. In a creative animation, I think the author has license.

In French, some countries are feminine, grammatically, others are masculine, and the US is plural. For reasons much more arbitrary than gender prejudices.

Really, the danger here is not Robert Reich being sexist or demeaning of any group. So lets leave that alone and give him credit for his tireless fight for our democracy.

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