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> Masculine terms include: entrepreneurial confident aggressive challenging outspoken strong Feminine language is communal, reflecting a commitment to working w
by mint2 6y ago
> Masculine terms include:
entrepreneurial
confident
aggressive
challenging
outspoken
strong
Feminine language is communal, reflecting a commitment to working with others. Feminine terms include:
considerate
committed
supportive
understanding
What makes these words m/f? Is it studies of how people perceive them? If that’s the case the authors seem to be missing the picture. In an equal world these words are gender neutral. And personally I don’t view them as having that division, but I guess others do and that seems to be the real issue.
- drdec 6y agoWhile you are correct (IMHO) to question the use of masculine and feminine to characterize these sets of words, in the end that is not actually relevant to the result. That is, if the authors had called the sets "cooperative words" and "aggressive words" instead, the result would still be interesting. I suspect the authors chose masc/fem to describe the words because that makes for a more click-baity headline for the paper. Not so that it would peg the irony meter of people who notice that they are using gender stereotypes to characterize words in a paper ostensibly written to help reduce sexism.