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She's not insane, she's a fascist.
If it was insanity, it'd be easier to understand her actions – she might not be completely completely in control of herself or aware of what she's doing. She knows what she's doing.
The judge is a female, maybe read the article before spewing incorrect genders all over the place.
Whoop, good point. I did read the article, it's just that my native language has no grammatical gender so it's like stupid easy to slip up with this stuff
As someone who has to learn the grammatical gender of nouns I feel for you. I’m constantly fucking up in my second language.
Grammatical gender just feels so, well… pointless. Like, why should I have to care about what someone's gender is when I'm referring to them? If someone's gender is actually relevant somehow I can just use words like "woman" etc. to specify (eg if I need to point someone out in a crowd or whatever), but it's rarely relevant at all. Defaulting to "he" isn't too great either even though I do it myself too sometimes because it's so common and it was taught in school too etc., but it's neat that "they" is more popular nowadays.
I should actually probably just fucking ditch gendered pronouns altogether and use "they" most of the time – would feel more natural, and as bonus it would annoy conservatives