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6. Explain the meaning of a generic term.
- Words that can be used for any age group
- Vague words, thought to be favored by women in Otto Jesperson's research
- A term used in preference to gender specific ones, or coined where one does not already exist.
- Words that have different meanings for the different genders
7. What is meant by "Male-As-Norm"?
- Men are more likely to work than women
- Men are not oppressed in society
- In many cases the norm, or standard is male, and the female term is still the subordinate one.
- Men are expected to do more than women.
8. How is politically correctness trying to change marked words?
- They want to remove the sexist marked words and replace them with generic terms.
- They are to remove all gender reference in all forms of language
- They want to increase the power of women through language
- They want occupational to be more accessible to gender