If you want to read something deeply uncomfortable about how language shapes society and how blind we are to the pervasiveness of gender: I think about this essay a lot (CW. Predudice)
::: spoiler
So I probably don’t need to explain that it isn’t about racism, it uses racism to explain how gendered our language is and how gross that looks to anyone who hasn’t become numb to it over a lifetime. But some people I have shown this too have been very confused
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I am extremely confused. Thank you. I have been studying language, in particular English, mostly, but there a bit of a few others, in different ways than most do. This opens a whole other (set of) dimension(s) into my understanding that is exactly the sort of thing I’m actually studying.
Language isn’t actually what I am focusing on. It is but yet another carrier of mostly, somewhat, in some ways, partly, whatthefuckever, “invisible” dimensions.
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If you want to read something deeply uncomfortable about how language shapes society and how blind we are to the pervasiveness of gender: I think about this essay a lot (CW. Predudice)
https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html
Spoiler for after reading:
::: spoiler So I probably don’t need to explain that it isn’t about racism, it uses racism to explain how gendered our language is and how gross that looks to anyone who hasn’t become numb to it over a lifetime. But some people I have shown this too have been very confused :::
I am extremely confused. Thank you. I have been studying language, in particular English, mostly, but there a bit of a few others, in different ways than most do. This opens a whole other (set of) dimension(s) into my understanding that is exactly the sort of thing I’m actually studying.
Language isn’t actually what I am focusing on. It is but yet another carrier of mostly, somewhat, in some ways, partly, whatthefuckever, “invisible” dimensions.