France, Alternative Libertaire AL #245 - Machismo language:
Things that do not have a name does not exist (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation]
A member wants to call the session chair "Madam President" and is called to order. It then
invokes the rules of the French Academy to justify his attitude recently invented rules to
eliminate the existence of women in public and professional life. ---- The assembly of the
old reactionaries responded. It reaffirms that the male has generic value, and we refer to
a 1984 text which explains that the female is the marked gender or intensive. Now the
brand is private. It affects the term marked a limitation, the other one is free. Unlike
the unmarked gender, marked gender, applied to be animated, instituted gender segregation.
---- Using the female is discriminatory: it follows that to reform the vocabulary of
business and put men and women on a basis of complete equality, we should recommend that
in all cases not consecrated by usage, terms such as 'feminine' - in French,
discriminatory genre primarily - are avoided.
Brilliant is not it?
The academy had been give on business names (even if it squeaks from time to time it's not
beautiful, she bows before use). He still has the names of titles and functions for which
it stands without much difficulty masculine generic, as most are carried and held by men
(not generic).
She claims to defend the language and history, dating back to Latin, whereas before the
intervention of masculinist language, grammarians claimed in 1607 "every name on man
office male gender, and every name on the woman feminine " and in 1632 "All the names of
dignities and offices belonging to man are male: pope, bishop, emperor, king, count,
counselor, lawyer, attorney, licensed, merchant, etc. " Similarly, women are the names "of
offices belonging and conditions for women: queen, countess, duchess, Abbess nun, Advisor,
barber"
The male is not more generic that it outweighs the feminine. Its use to describe women is
just a sign of retrograde patriarchy whose servants are struggling to admit equality and
working to eliminate women who are successful (success which can be discussed, but that's
another topic).
Christine (AL Orne)
References: Eliane Viennot No, the men do not outweigh the female! Short history of the
resistances of the French language , Editions ninth, 2014.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Machisme-langagier-Les-choses-qui
