What’s With This Sexist Double Standard?
@danishcanadian (28953)
Canada
6 responses
@boiboing (13153)
• Northampton, England
19 Jul 18
I think you may have just slipped through a wormhole into the 1970s. There are bigger issues in feminism and equality than these kind of semantics. And the term 'You guys' needs to be described as 'American English' not English (reading one of the other comments) because we hate that in the UK.
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@sw8sincere (5204)
• Philippines
19 Jul 18
i am not aware of this my friend.. but thanks for the information. =)
@danishcanadian (28953)
• Canada
19 Jul 18
This is English slang, but it's getting to be less colloquial, and more accepted every day. It's much the same as how a crowd of women in French are referred to as Elle (feminine) but introduce ONE MAN into a room full of women, and they are Ill, which is the masculine. Same kind of thing, but in French it's not slang, but proper French.
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@Letranknight2015 (51490)
• Philippines
19 Jul 18
I wonder if HUMAN kind is more appropriate for all. If the words were not acceptable then it was allowed to say it in the first place? Can you give an example of such double standard.
@Jessabuma (31700)
• Baguio, Philippines
19 Jul 18
I don't have any idea about this.. I thank you for sharing
@simplfred (20608)
• Philippines
19 Jul 18
Just like I wonder why there's a "mother nature" thing and there's no "father nature".
