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Thread: a really cool thing that students have told me about this term are "feminitives"—or basically just feminine endings on nouns. Russophone femininsts draw attention to women in non-traditional roles by ADDING feminine endings to words that don't usually have them.

e.g. vrach (doctor), vrachika (female doctor).

It's fascinating to me that this is the exact OPPOSITE of Anglophone feminist linguistic strategies. 1/