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[kippurbird]

Anybody know what "Gender Sensitive Translations" mean? It's from a Haggadah that came across my desk today.

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[thelittlebudgie.livejournal.com]

I'd suppose it was a kind of translation that remembered to look for the proper gender-alignment instead of just giving everything a male whatchemecall--article, I think.

Either that or there is such thing as word-blindness that is gender-linked, and so translations for men don't use words that only women can see, and vice versa.

[delphinapterus.livejournal.com]

Sounds like it's got something to do with being Politically Correct. Maybe translating things to everything is gender balanced/gender neutral instead of being he, she, man, woman, etc.?

[christinaathena.livejournal.com]

That would be my guess, too.

[wariena.livejournal.com]

That's what I'd say too- although the first time round I read it as "Genital Sensitive Translations" and broke my brain.

[sonic-sues.livejournal.com]

I would guess that it's a translation in which the original story has been mutilated to be "politically correct" to the feminazis.