Tens of thousands of high school students took to the streets of cities all over the country to protest against the reintroduction of military service. Many people believe that conscription is inevitable.

Young people gathered in Berlin’s central Potsdamer Square on Thursday and marched through the German capital to protest against the government’s plans to reintroduce military service. While the police counted around 3,000 participants, organizers claimed there were 6,000 demonstrators in Berlin and 50,000 in more than 130 towns and cities across Germany.

  • @ParodperEnglish
    1•23 hours ago

    Here’s a German native with that same question. So yes, it seems like a loaded term, but a very common one.

    And some people seem to think that “men” and “women” would be better terms, but those terms are usually referring to adults and not boys and girls?

    Yes, from what I’ve seen that’s also a problem, because people use «men» and «girl», so a child term for women and an adult term for men. I think the point is to use the adult form, if you’re not talking about literal children.