... of "politically correct" terms is not only unnecessary but disempowering (Jernigan 1994) because it forces a group of people to refer to themselves by a term that was invented by people who are not of their group. This essay will examine some of the different kinds of linguistic sexism in the English language, some ... see why writers in general tend towards describing males even when the situation is wholly ambiguous (as in the example of animals in children's school books cited above). Thorne et al (1983) points out another kind of linguistic sexism that more even clearly demonstrates t...

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