Re: How old is the machismo in Romance languages

From: pielewe
Message: 38707
Date: 2005-06-17

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, mkapovic@... wrote:

> Anybody who
> knows anything about IE linguistics knows that this has nothing to do
with
> man supremacy, patriarchal culture etc.


Pflichtlektüre in this connection: Dwight Bolinger, Language, the
loaded weapon: the use and abuse of language today, 1980.

Once I'd read that book, I realized that even the most irritating
feminist is still unreasonably moderate given the situation. There is
absolutely no cause for male complacency where the pro-male bias of
language is concerned.

Willem