In German, i sometimes do just that and use the feminine gender as the grammatical default. It triggers the chuds like crazy, as German traditionally defaults to the masculine gender when it's not specified and the boomers always go "well, women are obviously included in that bEcAuSe iT's oNlY gRaMmAtiCaL gEnDeR".
But usually i prefer the : to attach the feminine suffix (the : is a placeholder and signifies that enbies are also included). So instead of saying "poster" to refer to someone who posts a lot, i'd write "Poster:in". This (or variants where you use the * instead of :) is a common way to make German gender inclusive in leftist and radlib circles and ofc also triggers the chuds. You can trigger them even more by pronouncing the : or * as a glottal stop. It's a huge culture war issue over here, and opposing it is tied more and more into mysogyny, transphobia and enbiephobia.
In German, i sometimes do just that and use the feminine gender as the grammatical default. It triggers the chuds like crazy, as German traditionally defaults to the masculine gender when it's not specified and the boomers always go "well, women are obviously included in that bEcAuSe iT's oNlY gRaMmAtiCaL gEnDeR".
But usually i prefer the : to attach the feminine suffix (the : is a placeholder and signifies that enbies are also included). So instead of saying "poster" to refer to someone who posts a lot, i'd write "Poster:in". This (or variants where you use the * instead of :) is a common way to make German gender inclusive in leftist and radlib circles and ofc also triggers the chuds. You can trigger them even more by pronouncing the : or * as a glottal stop. It's a huge culture war issue over here, and opposing it is tied more and more into mysogyny, transphobia and enbiephobia.