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It should have at least some consistancy...
Mind you know english for few years only...
French language is better in that respect for a lot of thing...
Most job can be either feminin or masculin, and the one that aren't are feminin and we have "il" for he, "elle" for she and "on" for both...
There is still some gramaticaly rules that said the masculin win over the feminin tho, but otherwise the language is pretty much quite equal for both sex...
ETA: on second thoughts- there are sentances where you would need to write he/she and 'one' wouldn't work so ignore the above. Maybe we could use/create a new word for he/she?
When you personify most things like vehicles and countries, you say "she," it's just the way the English language is, no point getting your knickers in a twist over.
So taking "man" and "she" from words makes society more inclusive for all?
the world will carry on turning regardless ...
How so? As rolly has already said, the world will keep turning. I reckon we should just leave the language as it is.
Erm...no they're not.
So you're comparing the N word with fireman and postman, are you on crack?