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I think you're right, but you're being downvoted by people who don't speak German and don't understand how "sexist" the language really is, even if Germans themselves are as enlightened on the subject as one could be.

People forget that English has reinvented itself for the last hundred years and it's not showing any signs of slowing down, whereas German-speaking culture is a little more resistant to the mores of newspeak. Until you lived and loved in both languages it's not really clear how equitable German culture is, in comparison to English. A German might say there is a level of respect in calling something feminine, whereas an English-only speaker might react with abhorrence. Such misunderstandings are to be expected across the language barrier.