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Sexist English Language

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English

 

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Andrew M

 

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December 17, 2014

 

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University

 

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English verbs don't have gender, of course, but the verb "man," which means "to serve in some entity or oversee an operation," has an obvious built-in male bias, and English happens not to have a feminine equivalent for it. A woman can't woman a fruit stall, but a man can man it. This linguistic problem, of course, doesn't mean that we should forever be stuck with masculine-sounding sentences in such situations...
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A woman can't woman a fruit stall, but a man can man it. This linguistic problem, of course, doesn't mean that we should forever be stuck with masculine-sounding sentences in such situations. We can get rid of the gender bias by simply using a verb other than "man" when it is a woman that carries out the manning action...
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