Feature article on language used about men and women
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- Feature article on the language used about men and women
- Lexical asymmetry
- Male terms are considered more positive
- Female terms are considered to be more negative
- Good example to use: Spinster and Bachelor
- They mean the same thing but have different connotations
- Marked forms
- Terms for females are often marked by the addition of a suffix
- Suggests that the male equivalent is the norm
- Examples of a suffix
- '-ess'
- Host/Hostess Waiter/ Waitress
- considered demeaning to women
- Gender neutral alternatives have been developed as a result
- Firefighter, Chair, Police Officer, Sales assistant
- Gender neutral alternatives have been developed as a result
- Terms for females are often marked by the addition of a suffix
- Semantic pejoration
- When the meaning of a word becomes more negative
- Tart used to be a term of endearment
- Comparing them to a sweet pastry or dessert
- Somebody's sweetheart
- Untitled
- Promiscuous and insulting phrases
- Identified 200 promiscuous phrases for women
- Identified 20 promiscuous phrases for men
- Examples for women: ****, ****, Whore, Scank, Bunny boiler,
- Double standards
- Women are judged and shamed by society
- Men are encouraged and praised
- Examples for men: Manwhore, player, Fuckboy
- Terms of Address (Titles)
- Debate
- Should there be a title for unmarried men
- Issue of equality
- Why is there a need to identify whether a women is married or not?
- Miss (unmarried) Mrs (married) and Ms (Divorced/no preference)
- Debate
- Use of pronouns
- The pronoun 'he' is used generically
- applying to all members of society
- Should the pronoun 'they' replace 'he'
- Prescriptivist attitudes towards this: grammatically incorrect
- The pronoun 'he' is used generically
- Name after marriage
- Tradition for a wife to take her husbands name
- In some cases, men have opted to take their wife's name
- Down to personal opinion
- Some women choose not to change their name at all
- Whilst others opt for a double barrelled surname
- Lexical asymmetry
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