Italian courts barred from changing language rules Fox News

The problem is that in Dante’s language, when it comes to masculine and feminine plural things, the masculine dominates. Such rules are often seen as a glaring manifestation of male superiority in Italian patriarchal society. In the context of a discussion that erupted in the Apennines, a proposal arose to introduce gender-neutral endings for the plural form in the form of an asterisk

or the schwa symbol, which is denoted by an inverted “e”.