What Happens When Women Speak Up. In “My Fair Lady” — the play and the hit musical — professor Henry Higgins turned a poor Cockney girl into an upper-class belle by changing the way she spoke.
Speech may be as critical for women today as it was in 19th-century London. More so, perhaps, if we are talking about Silicon Valley. A woman’s way of speaking is a central issue in a high-profile sex discrimination case being argued in San Francisco. Former executive Ellen Pao, 45, is suing her former employer, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a well-known venture capital firm. Claiming she was unfairly fired, she is asking for $16 million in damages. The firm says she was combative and full of resentment. “The frustration I had was that behavior that was acceptable for men was not acceptable for women,” Pao said, answering questions from the jury. Her case illustrates a real problem for women: Good things happen for men when they talk, but for women, silence is golden. In short, when men talk, people see them as powerful. Malespeak with Radical Feminist Translations By Elaine Charkowski.
Mary Daly in her book Quintessence wrote, “Naming the agent is required for an adequate analysis of atrocities.”
As linguist Julia Penelope has shown in her book Speaking Freely: Unlearning the Lies of the Fathers’ Tongues, “Agent deletion is a dangerous and common mind-muddying flaw.” The purpose of “Malespeak” is to avoid naming MALE violence against women and it’s perpetrators (MEN) specifically. After reading Carol Adam’s books (Neither Man Nor Beast, The Sexual Politics of Meat and The Pornography of Meat) about how male violence against animals and women are not named, I watched for more instances of linguistic techniques to avoid naming male violence against women. Here are the kinds I have gathered so far. Minding our language. Once we had ‘isms’, now we have ‘phobias': Debbie Cameron considers what’s in a name Remember Betty Friedan’s ‘problem that has no name’?
Or Gloria Steinem’s observation that in the 1960s no one talked about sexual harassment–not because it didn’t happen, but because ‘it was just called life’? For feminists, naming women’s oppression has always been both a necessary task and a powerful political act. Of course you do not solve a problem just by giving it a name, but naming it brings it more clearly into focus, making it easier to recognize, to analyse and to share. What names we choose to call things by is also important. Since the 1990s there has been a change in the words we use to name oppression. Unlike some issues of terminology, this one has not provoked much heated debate. Je n’ai pas de « nom de jeune fille »… J’ai un nom et puis c’est tout! C'est un sketch classique au guichet de la Sécu, des impôts, de la CAF, du Pôle Emploi... ...
Robert Ménard, la femme, elle t’emmerde. 21 novembre 2010 Vous connaissez ma passion pour l’analyse de texte.
Et bien aujourd’hui, j’ai l’impression que le dieu de l’analyse des présupposés sexistes dans le discours verbal a décidé de me faire un bien beau cadeau. Le 19 novembre, débat sur I-télé. 11 Ways To Avoid Sounding Like a Sexist Jerk–Even If You’re a Woman. Whatever your opinion of the campaign by Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In foundation to ban the word bossy — which, for the record, I advised on — one thing is indisputable: the power of words is stark.
Call a little girl “bossy” and she starts to avoid leadership roles because she’s afraid of being seen as unlikeable. People are already wary of assertive women at work, but call a woman “aggressive” out loud and they will probably like her less. Call a female politician a ballbuster enough times, and people may actually be less likely to vote for her. Words tell us something about the way our culture perceives women in power, and whether we believe they’re supposed to be there.
So, in an attempt to save you — writers, speakers, humans, journalists — from falling into the gender bias trap unintentionally, we’ve put together this handy guide: Dictionnaire d’insultes NON sexistes- NON racistes – NON homophobes- NON putophobes et. Dans notre vie de tous les jours, nous nous retrouvons face à un réel, profond, et énorme problème.
Oui, on a parfois envie de pousser de gros coups de gueules, d’utiliser les mots les plus vulgaires possibles pour râler contre la merde qui se trouvait la devant notre pied ou pour insulter celui ou celle qui nous fait clairement chier. Cependant, dans le panel d’insultes usuelles de la langue française, peu ne sont pas racistes, homophobes, sexistes ou putophobes ( discriminant les prostitué-e-s) et en tant que militant-e contre toute forme d’oppression, ça la fout mal. How Sexually Violent Language Perpetuates Rape Culture and What You Can Do About It. Have you ever noticed how violent our language is?
« You Don't Say », la campagne contre le sexisme et l'homophobie ordinaires. How the Invention of the Alphabet Usurped Female Power in Society and Sparked... By Maria Popova A brief history of gender dynamics from page to screen.
The Rosetta Stone may be one of the 100 diagrams that changed the world and language may have propelled our evolution, but the invention of the written word was not without its costs. As Sophocles wisely observed, “nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse.” That curse is what Leonard Shlain explores in The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image (public library) — a pause-giving look at the relationship between literacy and patriarchy. Without denying the vastness of the benefits literacy bestowed upon humanity, Shlain uses Marshall McLuhan’s famous dictum — “the medium is the message” — to examine how the advent of the written word and our ability to read reconfigured the human brain, effecting profound changes in the cultural dynamics of gender roles.
Illustration by Giselle Potter for Gertrude Stein's posthumously published 'To Do: A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays.' Language Myth. Women Talk Too Much No, they don’t.
Rather, they don’t in every situation. Social context and relative power determine who talks more, men or women. Janet Holmes sets the record straight and establishes the reasons for the lingering myth of female chattiness. (The research cited in this essay was first published in 1999.) I'm Not Bossy. I'm the Boss. Exemple typique d'antiféminisme et de servilité féminine sous couvert d' "ironie" Nous sommes en 2012, dans le pays des droits de l’homme et de la femme. L’égalité entre les sexes étant enfin acquise, les féministes s’ennuient ferme. L’une d’entre elles a alors l’idée de sortir un vieux dossier (je pèse mes mots) appelé "règle de proximité". Et d’ajouter, devant l’assistance médusée : "désormais l’adjectif s’accordera avec le nom le plus proche" !
Ironie mise à part, cette scène est bien réelle. Des associations féministes ont décidé de faire de ce point de grammaire leur nouvelle croisade égalitaire-à-terre. Micro-trottoir sur la disparition de la case "Mademoiselle" des formulaires administratifs (France Soir) Une nouvelle contradiction. Commentaires internautes intéressants. Parité : Le masculin l'emporte, une règle de grammaire sexiste ? Genre, le désaccord. Oui, on enseigne le «genre» à l'école (même ceux qui s'y opposent) Temps de lecture: 11 min Nous republiosn cet article après la déclaration du pape François qui a accusé dimanche les manuels scolaires français de propager un «sournois endoctrinement de la théorie du genre». Pour le chef de l'Eglise catholique, «avoir des tendances homosexuelles ou changer de sexe est une chose», mais «faire un enseignement dans les écoles sur cette ligne» en est une autre. Paris, XIe arrondissement, moyenne section de maternelle. Dans sa classe, Stéphanie profite d’un temps calme pour passer l’album du chanteur israélien Asaf Avidan à ses élèves.
«Ils ont écouté sans que je leur donne le nom ou le sexe du chanteur, qui a une voix assez aigue. Histoire. Le masculin l'emporte. Les origines du genre grammatical.