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Such defensiveness accompanies the widely held conviction that the theory of "sexist language" and the program to institute "gender neutral" language are absolutely fundamental to the social and ...
Non-sexist or gender-neutral language is writing or speech which avoids perpetuating what is perceived as sexism. Calling this type of language "non-sexist language" is a loaded term, ...
Spender, Dale. Man Made Language. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. Spender gives a good summary and critique of the general literature on sexist language (pp. 7-51), and discusses the history of ...
Some Notes on Gender-Neutral Language ... The practice of assigning masculine gender to neutral terms comes from the fact that every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved, ...
Kleinman, Sherryl. (September, 2000). Why sexist language matters. The Center Line, a newsletter of the Orange County Rape Crisis Center, pp. 6-7.
Is Obama Using Sexist Language? ... Absolutely, Obama is using sexist language to identify his misogyny.
Jenny Redfern discusses how to minimize sexist language while neither violating English grammar nor using gender-neutral pronouns.
Reforming Sexist Language ... Sexist language is not always (and perhaps not usually) reflective of sexist thought
In 1986 Douglas Hofstadter, a philosopher, wrote a parody of sexist language by making an analogy with race. ... Sexist language may matter, but what are some acceptable linguistic alternatives?
Sometimes when faced with the most sexist group on Earth -- I believe them to be male FPS gamers -- you have to speak the very language they hate, and turn it to your advantage.
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