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As the writer mentions: 'The bottom line is: as long as gender continues to play such a central role conceptually, linguistic gender-neutrality will remain a dangerous illusion.' The illusion on genders created by language and other aspect of society. I agree with the writer that female and male discrimination is  obvious and the world became a patriarchal.

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Gender perceptions can be created by cultural aspects, perceptions, media, politics or art.

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The public image of being a particular gender that a person presentsto others.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/gender-role

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'As the feminist philosopher Luce Irigaray states: “[i]t has always been men who spoke and, above all, wrote: in science, philosophy, religion, politics” (Irigaray 1993, 121), meaning that it was mainly men who passed on their thoughts and achievements in language, rather than women.'

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The author is reminding that the main aspects of a society is based genders which can be considered as paternalistic.

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'Looking back over the past 2000 years, society has generally favoured one sex over the other. And due to its favoured position, this one sex was able to excel in public life, that is, science, philosophy, religion and politics, which in turn justified its preference to begin with.'

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Irigaray, Luce. 1993. An Ethics of Sexual Difference. Translated by Carolyn Burke and Gillian C. Gill. London: The Athlone Press.

Spender, Dale. 2001. Man Made Language. London: Pandora Press.

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Main idea of this blog report is mainly how language illustrates gender identities. The word choices, courtesy titles, language types ... Everything effects the perspective towards the illusion words are creating.

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'What I am wondering is this: do these sentences make me think more of man, or of woman, or, if the above nouns really were gender-neutral, of equally woman and man?'

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Blog - Language and Gender

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Should the society diverse into genders ?

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What is gender ?

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Does genders have a specific identity ?

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Can language affect gender identities ?

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