A note on gender specification in the German language.

The emphasis that has recently been placed
on linguistic gender distinctions in English
seems unwarrented to me, whose native language is German,
where not only are all nouns associated with gender,
but that gender is, except for some terms applicable
to animals and human beings, of no semantic significance,
viz. die Gabel, das Messer, der Loeffel.
There is nothing feminine about a fork, masculine
about a spoon, or neuter about a knife. In the context
of such indiscriminate usage, the gender of a noun 
doesn't mean very much. I also note that in the plural
all nouns are declined similarly, so that in the plural
all gender discrimination has been eliminated. Listing,
as is conventional, the subjective, genitive, dative
and accusative, one speaks and writes in the plural:

feminine         masculine           neuter

die Gabeln       die Loeffel         die Messer
der Gabeln       der Loeffel         der Messer
den Gabeln       den Loeffeln        den Messern
die Gabeln       die Loeffeln        die Messer

One notes also that except for the dative, declensions
in the plural are identical with the feminine singular.
Thus, in grammatical perspective, in German, all masculine
beings become feminized whenever there is more than one.
The implications, if one takes such grammatical ethics
seriously, are devastating. What cruel indifference to
to the sensitivities and rights of men!  Die Menschheit,
(humanity), die Sonne, die Erde, die Luft, the very air
we breathe, is feminine. So is die Seligkeit, die Freude,
die Hoffnung and, of course, die Liebe. If one surveys
the realm of words in the light of this new insight,
one finds that literally everything which is plural
has been taken from men.  It is an open secret, ein
oeffentlich Geheimnis, that in German grammar at least,
feminism has triumphed famously. "Die Himmel", the very
heavens of which the poet writes that they declare the
glory of God, and "die Meere," the oceans which praise Him,
are forced into a feminine sounding declension. Is there
no one among us, fair-minded enough to become the champion
of the grammatical rights at least of German men?