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Wednesday, May 18, 2005

French and Sexism

One of the turmoils in learning french is definitely the need to memorize the gender of every possible object. Anything definitive or abstract is either masculine or feminine, or so the french say. And it makes it even more complicated because there is no fixed way of knowing whether something is masculine or feminine. It has to be learnt by heart.

So in the course of my learning journey in French, there have been a few nouns that cannot convince me more, that the French are probably a lot of MCPs. Here's why:

The radio and television are feminine. "They make noise all the time."
The bank is feminine. "They take all your money."
The flower is feminine. "Beauty is ephemeral."
Insurance is feminine. "The kiasu worrywarts."
Questions are feminine. "They keep bugging you."
Insignificant places like streets, squares and rooms are feminine.

And these are what the men got.

Money. "Which equals to wealth, power and everything else, no?"
Happiness. "Happiness AND money! What's left for the women then??!!"
Computer. "A sign of advancement and intelligence."
Casino. "More money!"
Pretty places like castles and palaces.


Before you bunch of chauvinists out there start sniggering at women, let me just say that, this is just a whole load of crap.

Sure, the gender of the above mentioned nouns are true, but there are plentiful more that I've selectively omitted.

Ah well, I am so bored and tired of attending french lessons (which seems like 24/7) that I need to create some humour.

Counting down...
21 days to my French exam.
9 days to my last french lesson.
2 days to the release of my exams results.

All the good luck to ME!


[Time of Confession] 6:46 PM
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