Feminism and Sexuality

This article explores the relationship between feminism and sexuality, focusing on the impact of language on gender bias. It discusses the classification of gender in language, the presence of gender bias in words and expressions, and the implementation of changes in linguistic approach to promote gender equality. The article also highlights the role of language in shaping societal perceptions and challenges the dominance of language by the overriding group. References are provided for further reading.

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Introduction
Language is a very powerful tool where we can discriminate the genders, and the seeds of
feminism and sexism are reproduced. The language of the gender typecast where the women
should display social/affectionate characteristics, and men should display energetic and
competitive characteristics are both reflected in everyday communication. As a result, language
produces the imbalance of position and control in support of men that is close to the communal
roles. The English language rule of grammar and syntax is being produced in such a way that the
womanly term is somehow related to the masculine term. The use of gender-fair language
expression can stop these pessimistic results and encourage the equality of gender. (Menegatti
M., Rubini M., 2017)
Gender Bias in Language
The classification of gender-based on language is that the men are regarded as the standard of the
human being. The traits of man such as their thinking, belief power and actions are presented as
the total human male and female. This preaching’s make women invisible in the linguistic or
they are being removed from that place. The language of women always relies on the man, which
is presented as autonomous. There have been two types of gender chauvinism: Hostile chauvinist
and Benevolent chauvinist; in hostile chauvinism it represents an insulting representation of
women and a pessimistic feeling for them to glorify the masculine power, old gender roles and
men thinking about women as only the object of sex whereas benevolent chauvinism is more
delicate form towards the women because in this form it looks feminine gender as a chaste, nice,
and gentle and that they need to be protected by the masculine gender, which also states the
dominance of men and the women’s small role only.

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The choice of language made by the speaker affects the listener and occurs automatically. In the
context of media, the men are often placed, and they are being represented as more optimistic
and given the role of a more logical subject, but the women are being placed in the weaker role
and also depicted as more touching and inactive roles. The masculine gender is always
considered as intelligent and intellectual, but feminine gender is being considered as lovable,
nice and devoted to their duties. (Mills S.,2008)
Irregularity in words of many linguistic refers to many words as one sex. For the typecast of
gender, there are some terms which have no masculine equivalent such as virgin, working
mother or career women. (Fasoli, F., Carnaghi, A., & Paladino, M. P. (2015))
So sexuality has been optimised from the viewpoint of the English language, and it defines that
how it has created a line between men and women (Menegatti M., Rubini M., 2017) (Lei X.,
2006)
Subtle sexism often goes unnoticed as it is a harmful and unequal behaviour of women as it is
normal behaviour. The person who opposes these behaviours is being favored in gender equality.
But these persons forget when they treat any women very badly. It is being observed that both
men and women respect female and male leaders equally, but their non-speaking behaviour
towards female leader are very pessimistic than their male leaders. The persons are not aware
that they are differentiating the male and female leaders, respectively. (Swim J.K., Mallett R.,
Stangor C., (2004)
Linguism and sexism classify the place of the writer in the revolution of ‘sexism’. i.e. to oppose
the appearance of ‘political correctness’ and to find out what scorn of feminism language for the
public and the media. The first program that involves out is a known example of sexist linguistic.

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The, e.g. chairman has been changed to the chairperson; mothering has been changed to
parenting, waiter or waitress has now been changed to server. (Swim J.K., Cohen L.L., 1997)
Implementation of changes in the linguistic approach
The main component of linguistic planning is the changes. The linguistic planners need to find
different paths and way to apply their ideas so it can reach and extend to the community. To
make this happen, there must be planning with different language bodies and educational
authorities to change the existing process. But in case of the feminine language, they
contradicted and denied those changes. To change the form of linguistic, the main way of
incorporating the language was the education system, the media, the judiciary, and the
authorities of the language.
The encouragement of new female-centric language was achieved by personal linguistic patterns
and the woman who preached the language trouble is now the icon for the change in the female
language. For instances, in early days Emma played a crucial role in promoting female linguistic
in the German Magazine. The strain on the main agencies became the main change in promoting
the equal approach of the language. Females and action groups are comprising of women they
didn’t develop the outline of the non-sexist language but also tried to encourage the specialized
association and main organizations to implement these rules. These linguistic needed actions
were sometimes part of the main action by the feminine group to demolish sexist practice. The
prime target of the female activist was the publishers of the school books, the newspapers,
schools, and judiciary writing. These organization have been shortlisted due to their approach in
the shaping of the identification of masculine and feminine gender throughout the community.
The female language campaigner introduced the discrimination of gender, equal (work)

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opportunity and human rights activists. In the present, we can see that non-sexist languages are
being applied in many places in mostly the government industries and many private sector
organization in English-speaking country. (Pauwels A., (N.D.))
Conclusion
The feminism language is discussed here as a serious form of the language reform, allowing
women to present themselves as the role of language speakers breaking the rules and the
regulations. The primary goal of the feminism linguistic reform cannot be achieved but the
initiatives which have been taken has led to the foundation of successful approach and also made
a significant contribution exposing the ideology of the meaning of the language to the
community of the speeches and challenging the domination of the language by the overriding
group or communal, i.e. men

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