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The English Language systematically degrades and devalues women. Discuss.
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The English Language systematically degrades and devalues women. Discuss. "I believe the deeply rooted semantic confusion between 'man' as a male and 'man' as a species has been fed back into and vitiated a great deal of the speculation that goes on about the origins, development, and nature of the human race...It's just as hard for man to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the species as it was to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the universe. He sees himself quite unconsciously as the main line of evolution, with a female satellite revolving around him as the moon revolves around the earth." Elaine Morgan, The Decent Of Woman Does the English language really devalue women or is it just the feminists that see it that way? When I first heard that our language could devalue women in such a way, I did not think...
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