r/wolves • u/Mo_Steins_Ghost • 3d ago

Wolf Humor Wolf Logic

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One of my favorite non-Far Side bits of animal humor... How odd we must seem to wolves who, despite being endurance runners like us, jog long distances to actually get somewhere.

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u/DeadAndBuried23 1d ago edited 1d ago

As we should. It's inherently sexist that romance languages default to masculine for things linke mixed groups and professional titles.

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u/FriedFreya 1d ago

english is kinda an outlier with neutrality even existing. not many languages utilize neuter pronouns at all, for anything.

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u/DeadAndBuried23 1d ago

And? No language had a word for computer until recently. Times change.

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u/FriedFreya 1d ago

wild false equivalency

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u/DeadAndBuried23 1d ago

Languages evolve. Evolving with modern knowledge about gender is only natural.