r/AccidentalAlly • u/Tadumikaari • Sep 17 '26

"no-genders" yes. Let's go.

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u/Bauzvoli Sep 17 '26 edited 25d ago

For context: In German, "Gendern" means including both male and female forms and often a * for non-binary people. For example Lehrer*In or Lehrer*in or LehrerIn or Lehrer und Lehrerinnen. (Multiple ways to gender Teacher.) It's a big culture war thing and both the CDU (the "conservative"/right-wing party) and the AfD (the far right party) love to hate on the concept. Genderfrei/Gender free seems to be a slogan against it.

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u/xhydrochaeris 25d ago

To make sure the * asterisks don't get parsed by markdown, always put a backslash (\) before them

Maybe your original comment isn't clear enough, German is a gendered language and words can be masculine, feminine, or neuter. Words pertaining to people (e.g. teacher) have a male and a female form (Lehrer / Lehrerin) and the gender neutral way to refer to it i've seen, which is getting eaten by markdown unfortunately, is Lehrer*in

(I don't live in Germany, I am Austrian but I don't live there and I am not fluent in German, so please correct me if I've said anything wrong)

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u/confused_egg_ Sep 17 '26

Oh mein gott, ich hasse diese debatte so sehr... und nur weil ich queer bin werde ich immer darauf angesprochen und in diese unnötige debatte zum gendern rein gezogen. Ich kann dem einfach nicht entkommen

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u/LovelyOrc Sep 17 '26

Meine Frauenärztin bei der ich kurz nach meiner top surgery war wollte UNBEDINGT mit mir übers gendern reden und dass ich ihr zustimme dass das ja blöd ist. Bin da nicht mehr hin.

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u/theGentlenessOfTime 29d ago

Jesus....read the fucking room. Eine Gynäkologin of all people...🙃

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u/confused_egg_ Sep 17 '26

Oh wie nervig, ich hatte da auch schon so einige unangenehme vorfälle auch mit vorgesetzten die dann irgendwie aus dem nix anfangen zu sagen, dass sie das nicht machen wollen und sich dann rechtfertigen warum... obwohl ich überhaupt nichts gesagt hab. Ich weiß nicht warum die meinen ich wäre da irgendwie eine moralische autorität bei der sich menschen rechtfertigen müssen

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u/KeraKitty Sep 17 '26

They gonna restructure the whole language so everything is neuter? No? Then they're not really living up to their slogan, now are they?

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u/Nath_2000_ 29d ago

Sorry but, what is it ? A mug ? A sheet of paper ? My brain can't comprehend what it is and it's painful 😱

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u/Tadumikaari 29d ago

its a sticker i ripped of a ad sheet

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u/Nath_2000_ 29d ago

You saved my day, thank you 😭

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u/Tadumikaari 29d ago

❤️❤️

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u/xhydrochaeris 25d ago

i don't follow german politics, so i don't know if this is supposed to be pro or anti trans? "gender-free" as a slogan could be used by either

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u/Tadumikaari 25d ago

It's against queens, "gender" is a big culture war of the right wing partys

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u/Ymqbawb 24d ago

It's like people that are "against pronouns" lmao

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u/Key_Computer_5607 1d ago

It's really annoying because "gender-free" sounds like it could be saying "gender roles and expectations are stupid! We should treat people like people first and foremost!" But unfortunately, in every country I've lived in, the term "gender-free" has been co-opted by the terfs and transphobes, the types that say nonsense like "I don't have a gender - I'm just a woman!"

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u/Seiber_Spookums Sep 17 '26

I'll take one 🙋🏻‍♂️

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u/k8den 28d ago

is this in german or are those cigarettes

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u/Tadumikaari 28d ago

It's German:D it's sticker

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u/RainbowPhoenix1080 25d ago

I actually do not like gender-abolition. My identity as a trans woman is important to me.