ext_55570 ([identity profile] childthursday.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] bloodyrosemccoy 2007-05-09 03:34 pm (UTC)

I kind of like the idea of the language. But this one seems to be something done in reaction to patriarchy, rather than an attempt to create a language that really reflects women's experiences and women's emotions. Hmmm. That may not make sense.

[livejournal.com profile] ampersand pointed out that the word for 'man' is a suffix on the word for 'woman.' There - the language even copies the pattern of making one gender an afterthought to the other. It assumes that men and women are radically different and that the genders can be described in terms of how they're not like the other. Why not make the terms neutral?

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