I would be pleased if Migros would pay attention to this.
In the Alnatura stores there are small posters on the shelves saying:
"Tasting weeks
Ask our employees "
Employees would do the same - and we must slowly get used to it.
Kind regards
(PS: seen in Uster)
I am campaigning FOR something that should actually be something completely natural.
Have you ever read a text that only addresses the female form?
I just find "hating", "being against something" and "finding it stupid" a bit boring :-)
Pay attention to your thoughts, because they become your words
Watch your words, because they become your actions .....
@Conypilada
So, as far as I'm concerned: yes, I've read texts that exclusively address the female form. What I have never read in my entire life, however, are texts that exclusively use the male form.
Even if some women believe that our German is exclusively geared towards the male form, this is not true in the slightest. It was actually once a form that was geared towards both genders, i.e. towards MEN and not men.
Today, thanks to some extreme women, we now have both the human and the feminine form in the German language.
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The impression of language police, language control, language censorship...... or what is this called ?
"Eco-gender-feminist-good-people-newspeak"
Something is spilling over to us from the big canton....
How do young people here defend themselves against this new wave? --
They are increasingly communicating in writing in dialect!
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It is important to me that there is equal treatment, equal opportunities and fair wages for women. I don't care about the grammar, what use is the feminine form if the actual concerns are not implemented...
The problem is that the women's movement actually used the feminine form to draw attention to women's problems - just as they (mis)used so many other things to do so (e.g. the women's streetcar in Zurich around 15 years ago). At the beginning of the 1980s, Lilian Uchtenhagen spoke on the radio about not wanting to change the language, that it was only a means to an end. Unfortunately, this then took on a life of its own and women turned the German language into a problem, demanding the "feminine form" more and more, which led to the impression that this was the only problem for women and their movement.
About 15 years ago, Alice Schwarzer was on Johannes B. Kerner's ZDF talk show together with Verona Feldbusch. He asked both women what they would do differently, and Ms. Schwarzer replied that she would no longer trample on the German language.
From today's perspective, you have to say: women who still trample on the language today have become untrustworthy. They still haven't understood what the real problem of women and the concerns of the women's movement is. They are doing more to damage women's reputation than to help it.
Hello @Conypilada
Thank you for bringing up the topic here. As a rule, we take care to use human, gender-neutral wording, as can be found on the website, for example.
"Our employees will be happy to advise you."
(Thank you @Frederica)
May I therefore ask you to tell me in which branch you saw the notice you are criticizing?
I would be happy to pass the complaint on to our store managers.
I look forward to reading from you.
Have a nice day
Kathrin
