MODR 1711 Lecture : Gender stereotypes In language.docx

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Damsel-in-distress femme fetal (dangerous, luring and grabbing, domestic violence taking place; this is how egg is described after idea of sperm being aggressive was disliked) 50/50(the egg is the lock and the sperm is the key) All these ideas have the women"s sexual reproduction organ shadowing the negative, unlike the male sexual reproduction organ that is in the positive shadow of light: politically dangerous textbooks. Text books with these kinda terminologies of stereotypes is harmful to graduates who study from these textbooks.