Thread closed on Close to Politics

Hi everyone! Does anyone know why this thread was shut down:
Thanks in advance!

Hey,
The thread is closed because this whole thing just doesn't make sense here in America. You're coming from a completely different linguistic background with a language I don't even personally know, so I'm totally fine with you using specific terms if they carry a certain nuance or if people are inventing new words...

In American English, we have gendered nouns where things change based on who is doing the action—like how an actor is a man and an actress is a woman. Maybe some linguistics professors would find this interesting enough for a general discussion, but over in the Politics section, this topic just smells like misogyny. I’m not saying that was your intention, but that's really the only way it comes across in a political context. Gendered terms aren't some new phenomenon in our language; they've always been part of the way we speak. Take the acting example—the core concept is ACTING, not "actor." A man who acts is an actor, while a woman who acts is an actress. There isn't any logical reason for us to be debating why a woman shouldn't be called an actress in the Politics subforum.

Just because certain roles might feel clunky due to historical imbalances—like "soldier" vs "nurse"—doesn't mean it's worth a debate... much like how we don't spend all day in the Politics section arguing about regional accents or minor phonetic shifts like "going to my grandma's" versus some other dialectal quirk.