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To what extent does the language used to represent different groups of people need to be changed?
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To what extent does the language used to represent different groups of people need to be changed? There are many areas of sexist language, which perhaps need changing for example the use of the generic 'he'. The word he has been used as standard and has been the norm in the language. However, the generic 'he' doesn't represent the both sexes. Another example can be the mankind, where man is used as the norm. The language has many derogatory terms for women. There are in fact over 230 demeaning words for women where as there are 20 or less for men. These derogatory terms in most cases used to insult the person, this is down to the prejudices that reflect towards women. There are three different titles for women, which can indicate different status. 'Mrs' indicates that the women is married, 'Miss' indicates that the women is not married and...
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