Gender neutral language is a tool to oppress the poor
The people in power always had a variety of tools to seperate themselves from the poor and help them to keep that seperation as steep as possible.
For a long time language had been part of that.
In the middle ages the aristocracy often spoke a foreign language to seperate themselves from the lower classes, this and other things disappeared with the rise of nationalism across the west. Until now.
The west has achieved near 100% literacy across their people, it mostly also got rid of rigid class based systems.
Well we are about to head back into a more class based system and the seperation of poor and wealthy, you might think right now it is already as worse as it gets, but it isn't.
The first and foremost symptom of it is of course on how much wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, the second symptom is the rise of a new "language" that will help the well off to seperate themselves further from the poor and to discriminate them if they're not able to speak or write in that language, and this language is called the gender neutral language.
When you go back in time, you'll see that people often discriminated others for speaking a dialect they attributed to the poor, no matter how well-educated or good-hearted their counterpart might have been, they would try to ridicule and make a laughing stock of him because of his speech and use of language.
The gender neutral language is nothing but that.
A tool for the well off to help them identify the people who are outside of their peergroup and ridicule them.
They will of course market it in the name of good, and how it will exactly help the people who they will in the end ridicule for not using it.
The common people will never respect the gender neutral language, they'll ridicule as one should. But in that they'll weaken their own position, because the well off, the decision makers at the top exactly want that.
It will be nothing but a old but new tool to seperate the classes from each other.
The ones barely above the poor and uneducated will take to the new language, applications need to be written in that new language, every aspect of life will be influenced by it.
If you want to climb the career ladder, you will need to bow down and accept the new language and learn how to use it.
The poor will not be able to do it, to the point were successful pupils will ridicule their poor parents for not showing enough consideration in their daily lives towards the use of that language.
You will need to write your application in a gender neutral form, like you need to watch for spelling mistakes you'll need to watch that you write it in a correct gender neutral form and it will be nothing but a new unnecessary artificial hurdle to dimish the chances of the poor to achieve what the wealthy achieved before them.
Posted Jun 16, 2017, 7:46 PM UTC · edited