00:01
Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
Hello.
What's up, guys?
Hello.
Okay.
That one for today?
Uh-huh.
Okay, hold on.
This is from...
もちもちももちさん。
Okay.
こんにちは。
こんにちは。
いつも楽しく拝見しています。
Thank you.
ラジオを聞いていて、女性の質問者さんばかりだなと感じたのですが、
Kevin's English Roomの視聴者は女性が優勢なのでしょうか?
それともお便りを送ってくるまめな方が女性に多いという感じなのでしょうか?
チャンネル視聴者層の男女比や年齢についての傾向や、
それを受けてお二人がびっくりしたところや受けた印象を教えて欲しいです。
I think there's more female than male, I think.
True.
But it depends on the platform.
TikTok tends to skew a little bit towards male.
But YouTube is more female, I think.
Podcast, I'm not sure.
I would have to look at the data for that one.
But I can't give you the specifics.
Of course.
And actually, you can't tell if the message sender is male or female.
I know.
Only from the names.
I know, right?
There are so many times I've hesitated to go with he or she.
I don't know.
Right, right, right.
So if the nickname is something like Tomoko-san,
and then I probably, yeah, this one is lady, then I go she.
Yeah, right.
But still, you know.
You can't really tell.
Yeah.
Yeah, right.
I know, right?
It's kind of difficult.
Yeah, which one is that?
Yeah, right, right.
Do you feel a little bit like on the female side if the nickname was Yukidaruma?
Yes.
Because I feel a little bit.
Do you?
Yes.
Me too, yes.
What about Pikulusu?
Do you think that's on the male side or the female side?
Pikulusu-san?
Wow, very neutral.
Zero hint to me.
Okay, how about this one?
Yeah, for me, it's a little bit male.
Oh, a little bit male side?
How about this one?
Okay.
Still don't know.
Still don't know?
Yeah.
Oh, I thought it was kind of clear.
To you, what is it?
For me, it's male.
Male?
Yeah.
Senpuki?
Yeah.
Oh.
Because it's like mechanics kind of like.
Ah.
Or hardware kind of like.
True.
Gadgets.
I see.
Things that guys like.
Yeah, I see.
True.
If it was like more mechanic than senpuki, like a computer camera.
03:05
Yeah.
I would think that's a male.
Uh-huh, uh-huh.
Yeah.
What about sushi?
No, that's a hard one.
That's a good one.
Yeah.
That's a good one.
But a little bit female.
A little bit female?
Yeah.
Okay.
What about yakitori?
Male.
Tonkatsu.
Male.
Karaage.
That's male.
Male.
Yeah.
Stew.
Female.
I don't know.
I don't know.
It's funny.
It's interesting.
Yeah.
If we have image.
Do you think this is disrespectful to the genders?
Is this problematic in our generation?
Like in this age, day and age, where gender is a very sensitive topic.
Yeah.
Feeling gender towards objects.
Is that a problem?
Because like, you know, like in other countries, there's like masculine nouns and feminine nouns, right?
French, right?
Spanish too.
Yeah.
Like European languages.
Yeah.
They all have masculine and feminine.
Yeah.
Right.
Is that a problem in your country?
Like are you guys facing like we should stop genderizing objects?
Yeah.
No.
I mean, because it's not gender anymore.
It's just grammar.
Yeah.
It's just a type.
It's a rule.
It's like AB, you know.
Ah, I see.
So we don't feel, you know, gender from those words.
There's no stereotypes associated with it.
Yeah.
Like there's no connotation to it.
Okay.
But for example, like, for example, like a player.
Player?
Like a football player.
Okay.
If you're saying male football player or if you're talking about female football player, the player, how to spell the player will change.
Oh, sure. Really?
Yeah.
Oh, I didn't know that.
So that's something you have to be very careful.
Like in French, right?
Yeah, in French, yes.
Yeah, okay.
Or I think in any European languages.
Any.
Okay, okay.
Yeah.
So that's one.
That's one.
Yeah.
It's like Mr. and Mrs.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
It's not just like that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You have to add like E at last.
Oh, I think I.
For example, E or not.
Okay, okay.
I think I remember that in Spanish.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
It's really difficult because you have to decide it from your side.
True.
Like for example, it's a text, I think.
I mean, sometimes pronunciations are different.
06:02
So if you're talking about somebody and then I have to decide which one to use, you know?
True.
That's a little, you know, you have to define it when you use it.
It's definitive when you say it, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm considering you a male or a female.
Really problematic, right?
Is there a neutral version?
Did they come up with a neutral version?
Oh, wow.
Like for player?
Like if that person like don't want to be like categorized, is there a new version of like player?
No, I haven't catch up yet.
But it's possible they made it, right?
It's possible, yeah.
Yeah.
Wow.
Because in Japan, we don't say like a salaryman or like a career woman anymore, right?
We say like a person.
Business person?
Business person, yeah.
Business man.
You don't say that anymore.
It's a new word.
I see, I see.
So maybe, yeah, they have...
Maybe they have a new word.
Yeah, maybe.
I haven't...
Possible.
Yeah.
Caught up yet.
It's possible.
Wait, but I have an image that when I was learning Spanish, like masculine nouns and feminine nouns, like I saw a...
Like there was an understanding inside of me like, oh, yeah, that makes sense.
Probably masculine.
Probably feminine.
Yeah.
So there must be some sort of like...
Yeah.
Masculine nouns and feminine nouns.
Masculine.
Host...
Is that gender in English too?
What does that...
Is that English-wise?
I don't think there's gender in English.
Feminine?
Picture, hand, motorcycle...
Motorcycle?
Motorcycle, radio, class, meat, fever, forehead, that's all feminine.
Masculine?
Weather, day, language, map, planet, program, armchair, outline.
OK, looking at that, I kind of don't have...
Yeah.
I kind of don't see any rule behind it.
Because motorcycle, I thought that was masculine.
Right.
Yeah.
That's right.
And I thought the day or like weather was feminine.
That was my image, but I was wrong.
Yeah.
By the way, Japan is masculine.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Wow.
And France is feminine.
Really?
Yeah.
How do they decide that?
I don't know.
I have no idea.
09:01
And what if like there's a new word coming?
And then how do they decide which one should be in?
Especially with this era where gender is very sensitive.
True.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Like a new product, right?
Yeah.
Like iPhone.
Yeah.
Right?
Apple Vision Pro.
Yeah.
That's right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
Thanks for sending, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
