Discussion Time

[mf_luder_xf]

In The Female Eunuch, Germaine Greer notes how the language of affection reduces women to foods and baby animals--honey, lamb, sugar, sweetie-pie, kitten, chick.

Discuss!

Comments

[ahkna.livejournal.com]

In the 21st century Western, post-feminist society, it has become commonplace for women to question all the possibly sexist language as it relates to women and in this way, misogyny has been replaced by misandry.

You would call a man out for calling a woman a bitch or a cow but reinforced negative and equally sexist male language. In my experience when men are "acting like pigs" it is meant that men are acting sexist or inappropriate in another way not that they're oinking and eating out of a trough.

Whoa, I didn't mean to get so defensive there. I'm majoring in gender history at school and I often run across a gynocentric perspective with a misandric twist yet claims to attempting to create equality.

[autumndandelion.livejournal.com]

The pig comment was a joke.