French anger at gender neutral pronoun

A newly coined pronoun that aims to please all genders has stirred the wrath of the government and other defenders of the French language.

Compilers of the popular Petit Robert dictionary prompted the latest French backlash against what is seen as American-inspired wokeism by inserting the word iel as an alternative to il (he or it) and elle (she) in its latest online edition. The word, which can also be given the feminine and plural endings, ielle and iels/ielles, is defined as a pronoun for the third person “used to refer to a person of any gender”.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/french-anger-at-gender-neutral-pronoun-ttl25dzlb

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"Naughty" art

The Vienna Tourist Board announced in late September that it had moved their “explicit” content to OnlyFans. There, for a fee, viewers can access the art from Austria's museum collections that Instagram has censored or would probably censor if it was posted. The account thus far stars a male-only cast of famous artists including Schiele, Modigliani and Titian, along with antiquities. A promotional video proclaims: “Vienna strips on OnlyFans”.

News of this move made waves with artists who are regularly censored on Instagram. Long-wearied in their battles against the "Community Guidelines", artists rejoiced and proclaimed this an opening shot aimed at Instagram’s censorship practices. Finally, it seemed that institutions would stand up to support beleaguered artists. But in the subsequent weeks, Vienna has stood practically alone.

It is rather poetic that Vienna would take this stand. Art censorship in the name of “protecting the community” is not new. Some of the artists now moved to Only Fans were among those considered “degenerate artists” by the Nazis in 1937, whose work was not just censored but also mocked and destroyed. While the Nazis made a public spectacle over what they considered obscene, Instagram takes a subtler route. On Instagram an artist’s work is silently removed, leaving them with professional anxiety and little ability to appeal.

Instagram’s guidelines are especially fixated on the female-presenting body, made most obvious by their specific exclusion of the “female nipple”. This alone makes a female-presenting body twice as likely as a male-presenting body to be flagged, and artists along with advocates of all kinds are censored as a result.

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/11/17/viennas-onlyfans-account-does-not-help-living-artists-sidestep-instagram-censorship

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