Gender Stereotyping In The English Language by Laurel Richardson
The English language is something that has been created and improved upon for thousands and thousands of years. In every language there are masculine and feminine words. There's no doubt about that. But I guess no one has ever thought of it as stereotyping gender. As Richardson points out in her essay, the word man in included in so much like the word woman. Woman cannot exist without man. That is a good example of how females kind of need males I guess. The word he is also used to describe both men and women. She is very specific but he is so general that it can be used either way. I think the English language needs to be fine tuned a little bit more to suit and separate both men and women.
I find it really ironic, however, that in other languages, they have female and male verbs and all that kind of stuff. For instance, the Spanish language has el or la. Then based on if its a feminine or masculine word, you can the ending of the word to o or a. But its not based on who's using the word or who the word is being directed to, its just based on the word and how it sounds. I find it so interesting that even though there's masculine or feminine words in a language like Spanish that you wouldn't sit there and put a gender to it, like you would for the English language.
















