• Xyre@lemmus.org
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    29 days ago

    Doctoress. Didn’t realize it was actually a word and feel like we should use it more because it’s awesome.

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      29 days ago

      It does kind of sound cool but I thought the current trend was to move away from needlessly gendered language, especially with how in English a lot of feminine nouns are intentionally made to sound like a diminutive form of the masculine version

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        29 days ago

        Definitely agree with preferring non-gendered language. But it also doesn’t feel like right to default to the (historically) masculine version either.