Tag: sexism

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17 July 2023
Vagina? No. It's called an 'extra hole'
Woke language claims to be inclusive at the exclusive expense of women, who must literally disappear: pregnancy, breastfeeding, female sex organs can no longer be named so as not to offend the trans and non-binary ultra-minorities. It is the latest ridiculous move of the dying patriarchy that has built itself up from the very beginning on the marginalisation and erasure of the feminine. It still tries, but it will not succeed
Transactivists are ridiculous: in order not to 'offend' the ultra-exiguous minority of women who declare themselves male while retaining the female genital organ, the vagina can no longer be called that. Bonus hole, extra hole: this is the term. Even front hole no longer suffices: its unserviceability must be better emphasised. A relentless work to erase women from language and the symbolic, a move in extremis by the patriarchy that has built itself from the beginning on the erasure and abjection of the feminine, [...].
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31 March 2021
On the (profound) sexism of the Italian language
THE EARTH If she had had to sit through Sanremo 2021 a few weeks ago, linguist Alma Sabatini would have regretted many things, not least the insistence with which a conductor asked to be called director. However, I don't think she would have been dismayed or desperate. As a fine sociolinguist, Sabatini knew how deeply embedded in the language we have been given is an androcentric principle that organises the linguistic universe around a male speaker. He knew how rigged is the dimorphism of the fourteenth-century/Baroque language [...].
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