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Françaises, Français : Could the French language be less sexist?

By Thomas A. Smith

After stirring heated debates about Islamo-leftism in universities and meat-free meals in school canteens, France s ruling party has fallen back on another cause célèbre of the conservative camp: defending a status quo in the French language that is unmistakably sexist.

According to French grammar rules, all pronouns, nouns and adjectives carry the gender of the object or person they refer to. There is no gender-neutral pronoun like they and the masculine form is considered dominant in the plural: Thus, 10 French women make up a group of FrançaisesFrançais.

via www.france24.com

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