Summary and Reflection of
Kleinman’s Why Sexist Language Matters
Kleinman in the article Why Sexist Language Matters talks about
how people use male names when referring to both men and women. She puts out
the negatives of using the male names to apply to both men and women. Some of
the names she talks about include freshmen, chairman, guys, and others. I the
article, Kleinman puts her point across by giving the various example to
support her argument. One of the cases is using the race to identify an
individual like “freshwhite,†“chairwhite†and others. Kleinman proposes that
with no proper reference to women as a being on their own, it will never be
possible to achieve the gender equality every woman is looking for both in
roles at the workplace and even wages received. She concludes the article by
proposing proper names to be used to refer to women and men and avoid making
women sound like subset for the men. The names are like first-years to refer to
freshmen, humankind to refer to mankind, “you all†to replace “you guys†and
many others.
The entire article is based on gender
and how to attain a balance between men and women. It is quite clear that, as
much as we fight the gender imbalance, we forget about the little details in
language that are part of the more significant problem which is gender
imbalance. The article opens a new view of the gender disparity and puts it
into perspective. Through a change of language used to refer to women, the
society could be able to move a step closer to attaining a balance between man
and women by giving each the recognition they deserve and not making one
superior.
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