Are the Latin based languages such as Spanish sexist?

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7. Yeah, I don't speak any of them well.

That's why I was asking. It seemed to me that perhaps the very fact of a language being gendered might lead to sexism at some level. With spanish we have the whole concept of machismo which, to be fair, is present in all cultures to some extent.

With the diminutive I was thinking along the lines of hour vs minutes, larger things being male and smaller things tending to be female and so on. At least that's what my Spanish teacher said back in high school.It's not universal to be sure. I certainly didn't mean to declare that these languages necessarily were sexist, it was just a question that came to mind and I thought I'd take it to DU to perhaps get a more informed opinion.

There's a BBC article entitled ¿Es sexista el idioma español? along these lines.

In it, I understand the Venezuelan constitution had a hard time trying of accommodate that crazy pallatte of new titles and pronouns. Come to think of it, job tittles tend to favor the masculine if I'm not mistaken.