u/couleur_indigo

Sexually assaulted as a newborn in my birth ward. Memories came back to me in recent years. I'm 44 now. The staff took me away from my parents after I was born, my father took pictures, and my mother held me, in order to clean me in another room but they gave me to some woman who stole my virginity away. She timed it even; below four minutes or so since I left my mother's womb. She said it was a new record, like she did it often; sick pedophile. Early 1980s. Anyone ever hear of anything like this? What do I do? Would authorities even care? I haven't told my parents yet since they would likely not believe me that it happened. Do you even? I didn't even have my virginity for a whole day after birth! 😭

(Edit: No posts attempting to deny this happened. That hurts so much on top of this tragic event happening in my past so early on. 🍼 💔 You can't believe that people don't ever remember the day of their birth? Such pain entered into me when you tried to deny it rather than sympathize that such a heinous crime was committed upon me.)

A person came through our community with a caravan of large wagons plus a dog and two goats chained to it. He had come from Washington state on the way to the nation's capital for the independence day celebration. On the local community platform that I use, someone had photographs of it and people made comments calling out the animal abuse and that local police did nothing to help the individual or the animals. I merely stated that the person needed mental health help since I have gone on similar long walk excursions myself (not as far, though) and was hospitalized during one time, brought to a shelter and picked up by my parents another time, and telephoned home to be picked up by my father another time. I even took my two cats to a veterinarian clinic in my community by walking them in their cat carriers once, too, since I didn't drive, but I had to call my father to take us home after borrowing someone's phone. Police stopped to talk to me during my trip to the clinic with my cats; I explained I was headed to the clinic and he let me go. I recognize these as episodes of mine now and felt the person was going through something similar. My post was deleted by the review team and they denied appeal, being unable to understand my good intentions on expressing concern for the animals and the individual who was mistreating his animals like so during his episode. Why do people not understand mental health concerns? Why would they think it to be disrespectful when I was expressing care for the situation? I told them I felt disrespected by calling me disrespectful, but they denied my appeal of the deletion of the comment. I feel discriminated against. It's so strange.

Sometimes people mistakenly express "nother" as if it's a word because of this. There is no such word as "nother" in English. Obviously, this is a compound word in meaning, but the pronunciation is inconsistent with the pronunciation of the two words which it is comprised of. Also, why is it not expressed in two words ever, "an other," but it's always one word, "another."

Bless you all! May God's light shine throughout your lives always!

Coming from a native speaker of the English language, in which gender (masculine or feminine) indicates the gender of a living being (not an object).

How were the genders of object-nouns determined? What did the French do in order to decide how to assign the genders of each of the object-nouns? I know that historically, Latin assigned genders to words before French and that French followed after that notion, but Latin has masculine, feminine, and neuter genders. So, why did the French abandon the neuter gender? What's the purpose of having genders to object-nouns and their adjectives? I know that adjectives must agree with the genders of their nouns, but why have genders for object-nouns even at all, which would require the necessary adjective agreement? I've learned that some French word endings may either usually or sometimes (always, too?) indicate a certain gender in French. What makes such endings particular to either gender, and why not in all cases of those word endings (and if in all cases ever, why so?)? So, is there anything inherent about an object (or its word forms) which the French went by in determining what gender to assign to it, or was it arbitrary? Again, what is the purpose of assigning genders to objects which truly do not have genders?

It is such a burden to be required to learn the genders of all of the nouns in French. Is it all worth it? What's its value? Again, what's the point? Does anyone understand it? What's the logic behind it? Merely doing as the Romans did? Should I ask the Latin language people, since the French got the idea from the Romans who spoke Latin? What is this practice all about?

Why do the adjectives need to agree with the nouns in gender, anyways? Why aren't they neutral, like in English? Why aren't verbs gender specific in conjugation? Would that be too much gender consideration to handle and they reserved it to only nouns and adjectives? Do adverbs ever need to agree in gender with the adjectives which they modify, or otherwise? Do any other parts of speech have forms based on gender?

What happens when someone not fluent in French gets the gender of a noun wrong? What do French speakers think? That it's just a mistake? Is it considered anything like being improper socially according to gender roles, such as a man wearing a dress if you state "la" or "une" before a masculine noun? Do transgender notions ever arise nowadays when people use adjectives which do not agree with the genders of their nouns? Do people ever deliberately use the opposite gender of a noun when using an adjective as a sort of word play game? Probably not, right? Just asking.

Would French ever be able to abandon the idea of having genders for object-nouns (and their adjectives) in order to reflect reality, since objects are truly are genderless? Why not go neuter? The English have done it and are still doing it. I find it to work very well.

Why the hardship for those who are denied careers in life? It's bad enough to not have a career. So, why spoil someone's rights even more on top of that by denying basic dignity and respect?