Lack of appropriate language to describe female experience

Naming encodes the bias of those who do the naming. In the English language, males were those who held the positions of power during the periods in which the language was being developed. English speakers today suffer from an inability to articulate the female experiences, perspectives and feelings which language developers had no ability to perceive

Men frequently point out that women are talking "nonsense", especially when they seek to articulate a vocational or relational experience. Linguistically, this is precisely correct. The female perspective is not part of the "common sense" of the English language

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Form a non-profit committee to study the lexicon of women

We should form a team of women's issues scholars to address and examine this issue revolving around the language of women. This team can be comprised of professors, sociologists, psychologists, and re...

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This is Genius! I am very facinated by "general semantics", "nuero linguistic programming", and sociology, and this fits in all three... we need to educate people on this.
- Chad Sells

This is an excellent post! My first thought, though, is that it is not just the "English Language." It is everywhere! Books, thoughts, Religions, beliefs, behaviors, mode of what is made and created, ...
- Laurie Lundquist, LCSW-R

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