Blog#03 "Kings are Royaler than Queens:Language and Socialization."

In Sheldon's article she argues that the English language and our current society as a whole have created and passed along, a language influenced by a male dominated use of words. For example, she states that our society uses "he" to distinguish non sexed items such as stuffed animals, animals, and others. Her personal stories of her own daughter stating that there are more he's than she's so he should be used. She states that media, television, and children's stories have conditioned children that there are more males in society than females and argues that their should be equal sexual representation. I agree that as a society we do use words that target males over using words that create equality throughout society such as using "guys" to represent a mixture of a group of males and females instead of using "ladies and gentlemen" or "folks". I agree with her on her views of equailty but I personally place blame on our society and their uses of words that leave people unequal, but as society and with our access to this wonderful English language we have the opportunity to change. With the English language we have the options to chose different words in place of a male dominated word. In Sheldon's article she uses an example of fishermen, this implies that all people who chose fishing as an occupation are male. Sheldon's example this goes on to state that women and men can both become people who fish as an occupation and once that was established the term fishermen was no longer used, instead in fishermans place was angler. Sheldon's article does make a good point and as a society we should use words that show equality within our world not a dominance towards one sex.