Blog #7

The article by Nancy M. Henley points out that sexist language does not harm women. The male generic form used in language is grammatically correct and is suppose to also include women. in many cases women do not feel as if they are being included when the masculine form is being used. I myself learned something new while reading this article and it was just that i had forgotten that when the masculine form is used it too includes females but he name changes my the visual image I get I only think of males. In reality the generic form of language is not intended to harm women but it is very detrimental to them because they cannot visually see themselves when the male generic form "he" is used. while applying for a job position according to the article many women did not apply or stopped because the application used the male generic form and it was as though the qualifications for the specific jobs were meant for males. In a sense sometimes the male generic is used intentionally to not deceive but because people are not aware of its grammatical use and may interpret as it just referring something to male.

Attitudes Towards Sexist Language by Parks and Roberton

In the article written by Parks and Roberts the authors analyzed an experiment which would allow them to pinpoint whether college students thought sexist language still existed. Their findings were not what they expected, many of the college students ranging from ages 18-20 were in support of the old fashion sexism language usage. There may be many reasons why college students feel as if sexist language does not exist one could be that they have seen the opportunities that were given to women by reading it in history books and benefiting form them now and that creates the belief that they have come far and should be content. when in reality it has not been that long ago since women received equal rights. This idea will leave women once more disempowed if women fail t recognize that there is some sort of biased. It is and will lead to a regression in women's rights and treatment by society if women do not except that they are not equal to men.