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I think women find most of these clarifiers (that's how I see it, anyway) as a title worth being proud of. They've overcame social and potentially physical adve
by thatwebdude 9y ago
I think women find most of these clarifiers (that's how I see it, anyway) as a title worth being proud of. They've overcame social and potentially physical adversity to obtain this position (Female Firefighter, etc.)
I've probably heard Male Nurse vs. Nurse (who's a male) about 50/50 at this point. As the world learns that gender is not a prerequisite for nearly every job title, then these gender qualifiers will probably diminish.
Language is a slippery slope though. I don't think it should be read into too much.
- ashark 9y agoI don't care about using a sex/gender modifier on the names of the positions, but using the adjectives women/men woman/man instead of female/male. Comes off really weird to me. We don't do it for men, we use "male X", which sounds/reads way better, and until very recently we just used "female X" too—I think the allergy to over/misuse of the noun "female" has bled over into these phrases, too, and the result is jarring and strange. [EDIT] word "noun" where I intended "adjective" fixed.
- thatwebdude 9y ago+1, I read Woman Firefighter and auto-corrected it to Female Firefighter without second thought.
- QuantumGravy 9y ago- man nurse - man housekeeper - man secretary - man escort Wow, these all sound absolutely awful. How did the female, err, woman version become such an accepted construct?
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