The BBC News hmm... Certainly not best, or that trustworthy Toymaker Hasbro has confirmed its iconic Mr and Mrs Potato Head characters will be keeping their names. In a tweet, the firm said: "Hold that Tot – your main spud, MR. POTATO HEAD isn’t going anywhere! While it was announced today that the POTATO HEAD brand name & logo are dropping the ‘MR.’ I yam proud to confirm that MR. & MRS. POTATO HEAD aren’t going anywhere and will remain MR. & MRS. POTATO HEAD."
I don’t get it. How can a potato be a MR? Isn’t the word « potato » feminine in English? (French: une patate; Spanish and Italian: una patata)? Seriously, where did that gender neutral nonsense originated from? Not happening where langages give a gender to every thing, every object. Culturally impossible. Gender is essential. Gender is LIFE. It is equally important to straight and gay people. Go Gender!!
The PC brigade have gone too now, Mr. Potato Head was the patriarch of the toy box, the last bastion of childhood. Be afraid people the end is upon us.
The English language, at least in terms of the noun is much simpler to learn. I don't see why it is necessary to confer gender on inanimate objects. Whenever I find myself conversing in French for example I am always concerned that I might have failed to use the correct gender before the noun. Why should tableau (picture) be masculine and table ( table) be feminine? Maybe this has something to do with English being so widely used.
« Tableau » means « painting ». « Picture » is « image » or « photo ». I don’t know why everything has a gender in romantic langages. I’ll look into it. It does make it a little more difficult to learn (memorize), but it is also a lot of fun. Very poetic and romantic. In Latin cultures, things do not need to be « necessary » to be enjoyable. Very different from anglo-saxon cultures. Example: A turd = un étron. Masculine A shit = une merde. Feminine. You basically have two options here, depending on the context, your mood, the audience, etc. How fun is that?! It is too. You can say both. Let’s say that « pomme de terre » is a higher level of langage and « patate » is kind of familiar. You can actually call someone « patate » in French, meaning « dumb ». Anyway, both are feminine.
They teach this Bullshit in our colleges now too. I am glad i am not any younger. I dont like where the world is going.