Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: George Clooney, Third Doctor, Intersectionality
22 Sep 2016
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Gender stereotyping in the english language: women are a part of man. One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind . Generic man leads to a visualization of men women are excluded in the imagination. Women are erased through incorrect assumption of exclusion: pronouns reflect different personality attributes and career aspirations for men and women. A mother and her daughter are in a car accident. The mother dies instantly, and the daughter is taken to the nearest hospital. A nurse declines to attend to the patient because. That girl is my daughter : easier to imagine a same sex relationship than a relationship where a man is a nurse or a woman is a doctor. Language constructs women as immature and incompetent; men as mature and competent. Men must adopt the responsibilities of manhood while women must remain childlike and without power (70)
