Against “Against the Theory of ‘Sexist Language’”
The word “sex” — clearly evocative of an unequivocal demarcation between men and women — has been replaced by the pale and neutral “gender,” and the words “man” and “he” — now avoided as if they were worse than obscenities — have been replaced by the neuter “person” and by grammatically confusing, cumbersome, or offensive [...]
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“I can’t wait to be Mrs. X!!!”
“Of course I am PROUD to be Mrs.!!!!”
Honestly, don’t any of these people realize that by their prancing little logic their husbands/husbands-to-be don’t give a rat’s ass about being married?
Also, what is with people who think, or purport to think, that Ms. is a title for divorcees? Or – [...]
They is Singular!
As an English teacher, I’m frustrated…
this isn’t going where you think…
by all the people who use “he” to mean “people,” and then justify it by recourse to The White God of Grammar. For them, New Feminist offers the following excerpt from Steven Pinker’s Language Instinct, which just can’t get enough exposure:
The next time you get [...]
There’ll Be Some Changes Made
It may be that brides today are actually embracing all they’ve learned from the feminists who blazed the trail before, and are, in fact, carrying a different kind of feminist torch, whereby a woman’s identity is what she chooses it to be, including whether to be a wife and what married name she’ll carry if [...]
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