Are Jews gender neutral? Why or why not?
I had thought that Jew was gender-neutral until I heard somebody who was asked about their mother and replied, “of course not; she’s a Jew”.
Is jew gender-neutral?
How is the life of a child affected?
Is Jew really gender neutral? The one writer I like is
a poet and poetess. Isn’t all of them an emoji?
Why is Jewish hateful?
Jewess is more offensive due to associations with anti-Semitism, and it is even more sexist on top of that.
As @Monica Cellio said in a comment elsewhere here:
Jewess and poetess are offensive because they move the emphasis from the thing being talked about (Jewishness, poetry) to “ess”, as if women are in a different class than men. Men are poets, men are Jews, if you want to avoid giving offense Both Jew
and Jewess are fairly “loaded” terms and are likely to cause offense. Why are we a non-Jew avoiding the term “Jewish” and “Jewish”? In terms of offensiveness, the Jew is approximately the same as a Jewss. As a Jewish person can a word Jew refer to a specific person in the alphabet, you can use it very gently. Which is more important to me than or because I don’t convey any sense of us vs them. mentality? What does it cost to get away with using Jewess? If you have any doubts about whether you can get away with it, then you can’t; so don’t use it! When I describe, you don’t need me to tell you why I don’t have any such doubts. So if you didn’t know going in to reading this paragraph, then the answer for you is “no, never use the word Jewess “.
Why would a guy watch this 1980 sketch for “jewess jeans”?
