Women’s Language Rights!
Women’s Language Rights! Why is the language women speak not taken seriously? Picture this: you’re a woman, about to sit that all-important job interview you’ve spent days preparing for. You’re highly qualified and perfect for the job, but you’re rejected because – drum roll, please – of the way you speak. How is it, in any way, fair that a man who is less qualified is more likely to get the job than this woman, because his language is more ‘assertive’? It isn’t, and it needs to change. Let me tell you a fact that might surprise you: men and women speak the same language. There is no such thing as one gender’s specific ‘language’ being superior to the other; they’re identical. So why is it that we still insist on pointing out the ‘differences’ in the language between men and women, and worse still, using it as a form of discrimination against women? The theory for looking at gender differences in language in the present day is called the Diversity model. This is the id...