Yes, Aliph

I suggest we adopt the following changes immediately

manager = personager

man-hole = person-hole

mansion = personsion

workmanship = workpersonship    man-made = personmade

Roman = Roperson

Other new words would include: personual, personure and personiac

male= gender neutral    female =fegender neutral

boyfriend and girlfriend are both re-written as youthfriend

And the following alteration should be carried out

health - s/health  heart - s/heart   heterosexual - s/heterosexual.

I think that with a little consistency in this approach to political correctness we could turn our lives into a living s/hell !

Thanks, KP. My sentiments exactly.

I wish you hadn't started me, Aliph, because I could go on and on about this. For example, there used to be the female form of hairdresser: "Friseuse". However, this was considered disrespectful. For - get this - the sole reason that the only other German word ending in "-euse" was "Masseuse" (female masseur) which may be used as a euphemism for prostitute. And even though to my knowledge, nobody had ever associated female German hairdressers with prostitutes, nowadays, the word for a female hairdresser is "Friseurin" - a French-German bastard of a word, misbegotten by adding the German female ending "-in" to the French-derived word for male hairdresser "Friseur". And yes, you will get corrected, emphatically so, if you happen to use the old form.

Luckily I didn't experienced something like that myself but it exists to some extent.
I think this whole gender-stuff is completely useless and getting out of hand, nobody has an advantage from that whatsoever.
A first world problem par excellence.

In Arabic, the masculine is often closer to the base form, and the feminine is created by adding a suffix.

Verbs:
كتب /kataba/ ("he wrote")
كتبت /katabat/ ("she wrote")

Nouns:
مكتب /maktab/ ("office"; masc)
مكتبة /maktaba/ ("library"; fem)

If Arabic speakers decided that they wanted to make the language gender neutral, I think the most efficient way would be to eliminate the feminine gender and just use the construct of the masculine gender. Although that would lead to a loss of many nouns. Making the word masculine sometimes completely changes its meaning, just as in the case of مكتب and مكتبة.

Additionally, gender in Arabic is often purely grammatical. It has nothing to do with the qualities of the object. No one thinks of libraries as having feminine qualities and offices as having masculine qualities. As a matter of fact, some things have different names with one name being masculine and the other feminine.

مكتوب /maktoob/ ("letter"; masc)
رسالة /risaala/ ("letter"; fem)