Feminism and Sexuality

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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.