Gender-neutral language

three distinct groups of feminists emerged, each with their different way of implementing these proposals. Radical feminists argued that gender-neutral language would actually be consequential to women. They claimed that men and women are affected by sexual activity differently and should therefore be treated differently, and also feared that gender-neutral language would not cause any substantial change because of the social inequality that exists between men and women. On the other end of the spectrum

Gender is considered an axis of social order. Its categorisation into masculinity and femininity is social constructed and maintained in everyday life (Clark and Page, 2005; Mackie, 1994). Gender identity is our innermost understanding of our self as ‘male’ or ‘female’. Most people develop a gender identity that matched their biological sex (their body). Gender identity can be affected by, and is different from one society to another, depending on the way the members of society evaluate the role

In the news this August a Fox News reporter, Cody Derespina, described the causation and consumer reaction to “Target Going Gender Neutral in Some Sections”. After receiving some complaints from customers the retailer felt the need to address the amount of gendered language in the children sections and the colors being used to categorize certain toys. For example, one mother sent a tweet to Target with a picture of a sign saying “Building Sets” and below it reading “Girls’ Building Sets”. She stated

Introduction In the 1981 New York Times article, On Language; In Defense of Gender, Cyra McFadden tries to lighten the mood on gender equality in the English language. The art of storytelling is being diminished by the stance that the masculine based English language needs to be neutered. The flow of reading and writing is a beautiful thing that is being compromised by slashes and hyphenated surnames. In a professional environment being politically correct can cause your audience to lose the train

Summary One/10 In her essay “Why sexist language matters” (Qualitative Sociology, 2002), Kleinman argues that sexist language is a social problem because masculine generic language has many stereotypically masculine terms and expressions that affecting ways that people are speaking that has consequences and can be eliminated. One of the examples, is when masculine term is used in language by many people to refer to women’s occupation titles, like, “chairman” and “postman.” When women are called

Language refers to the method that humans use to communicate either through speech or written. It consists of the use of the word in a structured and conventional way. Language has been referred to as ‘our means of classifying and ordering the world; our means of manipulating reality. In structure and in its use we bring out the world into realisation and if it is inherently inaccurate, then we are misled. (Dale Spender, 1980).Language has power that allows us to make sense out of the reality we

Most of the fast-food commercials that we see in our daily lives are usually presenting bad images and representation of women. Though, it is argued that fast food commercials are more aware of these issues that they present; I believe there is a gender imbalance in fast food advertisements. To begin, men being superior to women in fast food advertisements have always been around since the invention of fast food. As time comes along, advertisers have tried to make these issues less obvious. Advertisers

Upon further analyzing the article "In Defense of Gender," I have noticed that my initial conclusion as to the purpose was generally accurate. However, by looking further into it, I have discovered that while Cyra McFadden is primarily arguing against the usage of gender-neutral pronouns. That argument is separated into multiple categories. For example, the author first expresses her distaste for using "person" as the suffix to job positions, such as "waitpersons" or "childcare-persons." Furthermore

Around the world today, there are 2,700 languages with over 7,000 individual dialects spoken. The English language alone has approximately 171,476 words and throughout the day, a person utilizes around 16,000 of them. Walking through a crowded school hallway decorated with banners and filled with chatter, every once in awhile a person hears a snippet of someone else’s conversation. Two teenage boys stand by a group of lockers, a few words made out  include- “slut” and “whore.” Walking further into

audiences, or to make it more “inclusive,” as was the case with the British New International Version Inclusive Language Edition, care should be taken not to alter the meaning of the text when trying to make it more understandable. Hebrews is a book in the New Testament which, as the New Century Version states, is like “Cliffs Notes for the whole Bible.” (New Century Version, pg. 1428) Language