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Landlord is gender-neutral in English, and has been so for a long time.
by frosted-flakes 5y ago
Landlord is gender-neutral in English, and has been so for a long time.
- Macha 5y agoEven in the US? Because as the link the grandparent comment shows, it is one of the words Google Docs is warning away from as insufficiently inclusive
- alexb_ 5y agoYes, even in the US. But of course, given enough influence, you can make absolutely anything non-inclusive. And social pressure will make everyone have to accept it.
- BitwiseFool 5y agoI also find it baffling that inclusivity folks find a term that used to be male exclusive becoming applicable to both male and female as problematic. Wouldn't they want something like this to happen?
- dekhn 5y agoI don't see this as too baffling- in their logic, if you have two alternatives (landlord and landlady, say) and landlord gets picked, it's evidence of patriarchy (because it defaulted to male). They would prefer "landperson", or perhaps "rent seeking capitalist"
- frosted-flakes 5y agoYes, just like "actor" is gender-neutral (although "actress" is still explicitly female).
- scythe 5y agoWhen I rented a room from a woman in Atlanta, the other tenants and I always referred to her as "landlord" and nobody batted an eye. The only time I hear "landlady" is when One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer plays on the radio. So that's my datum.