>> The strong version of this hypothesis is surely untrue. If it were true, we might conclude that some languages that I speak that lack marked gender in the la

>> The strong version of this hypothesis is surely untrue. If it were true, we might conclude that some languages that I speak that lack marked gender in the languages' grammar are spoken among native speakers who are "less sexist" than speakers of languages in which gender is strongly marked. The real-world observation, if anything, is the other way around. I have to respectfully disagree with the strong version of the linguistic relativity hypothesis. Within each language grouping, people differ far more in their personal thinking along the dimension of visual thinker or not, or auditory thinker or not, than people differ from one another in thought patterns based on language background. "The real-world observation, if anything, is the other way around." You have surely not certainly convinced me that languages and thought are not correlated. Continuing along your observations: Perhaps speakers of languages with marked genders respect differences between two genders. "Equal but different". Speakers of other languages may try to fit both genders into the same stereotypes and find their expectations are not met, resulting in a "sexist" response.