The Concept of Gender Neutrality and You

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To remember

• saying mankind >be better to use humankind.
• Saying the chair better than saying chairman,
• Gender neutrality (adjective form: gender-neutral),= gender-neutralism or the gender neutrality movement > policies, language, + other social institutions (social structures, gender roles, or gender identity) should avoid distinguishing roles according to people’s sex or gender > in order to avoid discrimination arising from the impression that there are social roles one gender more suited than another.
• Gender neutrality =/= synonymous with androgyny or anything of the sort.
• Sexism =  prejudice or discrimination based on a person’s sex or gender.
• Sexism = linked to stereotypes + gender roles, => belief one sex or gender intrinsically superior to another.
• Extreme sexism may foster sexual harassment, rape, + other forms of sexual violence.
• Gender discrimination = encompass sexism = discrimination toward people based on their gender identity or their gender or sex differences => defined in terms of workplace inequality.
• different labels tacked to foreheads
• God created man in his own image > generic term =/= used to refer to both genders => to man > Book recognises  uniqueness of male & female
• gender roles and gender discrimination > programmed into us silently + cleverly + as soon as binary is clearly marked => discrimination sets in.
• steady erosion of gender roles + stereotypes in society
• basic point of feminism, of most gender movements = we are all the same

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Preceding

Gender, genderless, androgyny, bisexuality, cisgender and transgender

Study says highlighting gender leads to stereotypes

Do the concepts of male and female need to have a formal official definition

Trans extremism, trans ideology, genderless a.o. categories and TERFs

The dilemma of gender neutrality

She/Her – They/Them – Person

Ursy Rants

Someone posted in a WhatsApp group I’m in something he’d seen on Twitter. I could share it here but it is on my phone and I am a lazy human. Transferring is work. Anyway, the basic message of the text was to use gender neutral language in a bid to prevent gender bias. So, instead, for instance, of saying mankind, it would be better to use humankind. Saying thechair is better than saying chairman, etc. You get the idea.

It sparked a conversation. Technically, it wasn’t a conversation. It was one person hating the fact that such a post even existed. Gender neutrality had nothing to do with gender bias and on and on and on. This person didn’t see the need for gender neutrality and my brain didn’t see the need to stop yapping to me about it so it’s nearly two am and I’m…

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