German now has a number of competing, made up schemes to degender so that a minority of women can do an inner victory fistpump whenever they see the language po

German now has a number of competing, made up schemes to degender so that a minority of women can do an inner victory fistpump whenever they see the language pockmarked with their particular brand of degendering. What they all missed was that German already had degendering built right in, the diminutive (something dearly missing from the English language) : der Holzfäller -> das Holzfällerchen, der General -> das Generälchen, die Kanzlerin -> das Kanzlerchen, die Maid -> das Mädchen