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I saw that example- it probably does assume that women will always be in victim positions. There\'s definitely some sexism in the gender of some french words. Case in point, un honet homme means \
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I saw that example- it probably does assume that women will always be in victim positions. There\\\'s definitely some sexism in the gender of some french words. Case in point, un honet homme means \\\"an honest/honorable man\\\", but the feminine version, une honete femme means [[MyGirlIsNotASlut a chaste woman]]\\\".

Although there are plenty of words where gender doesn\\\'t seem to have any significance- case in point, une chemise is a (man\\\'s) shirt and un chemisier is a blouse.
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