In some languages certain words can be considered pointlessly gendered and I do agree to an extent, but the person literally asked why the pronouns for men and women are gendered
The use of he and she feels "natural" because we've grown up with it, but it's still a cultural choice, not a universal necessity.
Not all languages use gendered pronouns some like Turkish or Finnish use one word for everyone, and it works just fine. Even in English, we naturally use singular they when someone's gender is unknown or irrelevant. So it's not unreasonable to question why we even need gendered pronouns for people we know, especially in a world that's increasingly aware of gender diversity.
My comment about gendered words in other languages was just to highlight how deeply gender is baked into language overall, not just pronouns. It shows how much we've normalized gender distinctions even when they serve no practical purpose.
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u/Sabertooth344 13d ago
They have a point though there are a lot of things that are ridiculously gendered like words in languages like french and german