grammatical gender doesn’t actually have anything to do with social gender, it’s just a very dumb piece of terminology.
There’s no pattern to it because it’s just a thing that happened, “mädchen” is neuter because very few people think of nouns as having societal gender connections, they just use whatever grammar they grew up with and sounds right.
you talk about manufactured outrage but dude, you’re doing the same thing!
grammatical gender doesn’t actually have anything to do with social gender, it’s just a very dumb piece of terminology.
There’s no pattern to it because it’s just a thing that happened, “mädchen” is neuter because very few people think of nouns as having societal gender connections, they just use whatever grammar they grew up with and sounds right.
you talk about manufactured outrage but dude, you’re doing the same thing!
“Mädchen” is neutrum because it is diminutive of “Magd” and the diminutive is neutrum.