A couple of comments please; Why is it that there is no real noun word, other than girls, that does not include some subservience to boys, it is all Wo-men, fe-male, Mrs or Ms, etc? There is Wahine or Tane, which seems separate, but English seems to always put girls not quite on a par, that is not right in any respect.
A couple of comments please; Why is it that there is no real noun word, other than girls, that does not include some subservience to boys, it is all Wo-men, fe-male, Mrs or Ms, etc? There is Wahine or Tane, which seems separate, but English seems to always put girls not quite on a par, that is not right in any respect.
The other point is that the media and other interests will continue to push out false information structured to modify behaviour - unless We stop it, legal action is about the only way we have available !!!
There have been books written about how the English language is inherently sexist. This was especially so in the 1980s Two authors I recall are Julia Penelope (a linguist) and Mary Daly (a philosopher). If you are not familiar with them Julia presents an analysis and Mary came up an alternative vocabulary. Where does this structural bias come from? Well that seems to be so long ago that it has been taken for granted that it is just how it is. Anyway I did lots of reading back then that I found very interesting and useful.. You may or may not be familiar with it or find it useful.
A couple of comments please; Why is it that there is no real noun word, other than girls, that does not include some subservience to boys, it is all Wo-men, fe-male, Mrs or Ms, etc? There is Wahine or Tane, which seems separate, but English seems to always put girls not quite on a par, that is not right in any respect.
The other point is that the media and other interests will continue to push out false information structured to modify behaviour - unless We stop it, legal action is about the only way we have available !!!
There have been books written about how the English language is inherently sexist. This was especially so in the 1980s Two authors I recall are Julia Penelope (a linguist) and Mary Daly (a philosopher). If you are not familiar with them Julia presents an analysis and Mary came up an alternative vocabulary. Where does this structural bias come from? Well that seems to be so long ago that it has been taken for granted that it is just how it is. Anyway I did lots of reading back then that I found very interesting and useful.. You may or may not be familiar with it or find it useful.
The structural bias, just part of Herstory I guess…