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Title: What is gender-inclusive language? Should our goal be to utilize gender-inclusive language? What are ... Post by: monthers on Jan 17, 2018 What is gender-inclusive language? Should our goal be to utilize gender-inclusive language? What are some ways you can avoid gender exclusivity in your language use?
What will be an ideal response? Title: What is gender-inclusive language? Should our goal be to utilize gender-inclusive language? What are ... Post by: jfitz2343 on Jan 17, 2018 Gender-inclusive language is language that does not discriminate against men or women.
Unfortunately, the English language is structured with an inherent bias toward men. For example, there are no gender-neutral pronouns in the English language. Our goal therefore should be to use gender-inclusive language. Ways to do this include: (1 ) commit to removing sexism from your language; (2 ) practice and reinforce gender neutral communication patterns; (3 ) practice unfamiliar gender neutral idioms (i.e., police officer) until they become natural; (4 ) take care to not cause negative reactions from your listener because of awkward use of gender neutral language; (5 ) check the root meaning of words; and (6 ) carefully monitor your outgoing communication to ensure that it is not sexist. |