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'The thrust of these style guides falls back to a weird kind of masculine virility. The terms themselves—“passive” and “active”—rely heavily on received tropes
by GedByrne 9y ago
'The thrust of these style guides falls back to a weird kind of masculine virility. The terms themselves—“passive” and “active”—rely heavily on received tropes of gendered norms, and for that reason alone we should be suspicious of them.'
Are gender norms really the root of all evil?
Power will corrupt in both patriarchies and matriarchies.
- onli 9y agoYeah. That sentence is useless for the argumentation of the article (which is fine and interesting otherwise), it can only be interpreted as a nod to a specific kind of ideological readership. It doesn't help his argumentation, it is even completely wrong (active and passive have nothing to do with gender norms - maybe in a sexualized way of thinking, but that's in the author's head). It's a "Look, I'm intelligent and a feminazi as well, I'm cool!". A good lector would have removed it.
- beaconstudios 9y agothat comment strike me as odd too - the terms "active and passive voice" are due to the passivity or activity of the speaker in the events being described. It has absolutely nothing to do with gender. If they were called "masculine and feminine voice" to correspond to the same then the author would have a case.