"Perfectly gender-equitable" would have been spoken by Anne Will on ARD, said Luise F. Pusch, the pioneer of feminist linguistics, enthusiastically.

Her praise related to how the moderator managed to verbally implement the so-called gender asterisk in words such as taxpayers.

The special character * is intended to include all gender identities in addition to the female and male and thus establish a language practice that does not make anyone feel excluded.

Each of the many rays of the asterisk refer to a possible gender identity, it is often said in a somewhat confused way.

In the written language, the asterisk is a seemingly over-ambitious innovation, because with the virtually infinite reference assigned to it, it exceeds everything that has existed before.