More attempts to change society by changing our language. Is there any documented evidence that solutions like this may work?
My company tried to get everyone to use "folks" instead of "guys". And almost no one follows this rule (of all genders) and many people seem to have given up on trying.
At a broader scope, this is a debate between descriptive and prescriptive linguistics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_description#Descrip...