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thought to “fit” with the men and women of society. It is rather disgusting how such stereotypical thoughts could be evident in our world in the seventies.

Woman have been discriminated though language in almost every kind of sense. Even in religion, women are not seen as the higher power. Just look at all the priests and the pope, all of the higher powers are male. Jesus was male, and only selected male apostles (Aburgbae, Waisbitt 122). although some changes have been made is certain hymns and gospels, such as: “Good Christian Men, Rejoice” was changed to, ” Good Christian Friends, Rejoice”, the church has a long way to go with modifying their language and stereotypical ideas against the females of this world. Yet those kinds of obstacles and struggles are worth fighting for, if you expect results (The Women’s Review of books 27).

Stereotypes that are put on women through language are numerous. A woman with strong opinions and very determined is a “bitch”, while a man is very ambitious. If a woman is good at sports then she is manly but a man is just filling his athletic potential. A woman dresses or acts sexy is a “slut” while a man is just showing off his nice body. Women are stereotyped by society every day and that is mainly powered by our societies language.

It is not only women who are discriminated against. Through language, men are also stereotyped as well. Men are very often thought to be hard nosed and insensitive, football watching, pieces of garbage. Most of these stereotypes are made from females because they see these actions in men who they become involved with. For instance, if a man feels like sitting on the couch and watching football, but his girlfriend really wants to go to the movies and they end up on the couch for the afternoon then the man is thought of as a chauvinistic, insensitive, typical male. This is not the case, sometimes guys just do not feel like going to the movies or out to dinner. Also there are affectionate guys in the world, but no women is going to have it their way all of the time.

Body language also differs greatly between genders. For instance, if a woman makes the first move (sexually) then she is a “whore”. If the guy doesn’t make the first move then he is considered to be not a “real man”. Luckily, these stereotypes are starting to change. Body language is most evident in how a person walks around and carries him or herself. For example, if a woman walks without grace then she is walking manly and visa versa, if a man doesn’t walk all tough then he is “girly”. Also walks around in kind of a feminine way, then the person is considered to be homosexual. If a man walks in a tough, “manly” fashion, then he is considered to be a tough guy or hard-nosed. These body language factors are not as prominent as the language stereotypes but they are still around.

Although women carry many of their own disbelieves about men, men have their share of misunderstandings about woman. For example women feel that men are very insensitive, self-centered, human beings. And in return men feel that woman are very sensitive and become to emotional over everything. When in fact these are all misconceptions of the male and female gender communication system. Men are really very sensitive people just like women, but they hold a lot of their emotions inside of them. Women are looked at as being too sensitive because they express their emotions a lot more than men. In today’s society we want to believe communication has expanded as well as improved greatly. To a certain extent it has, but there are still a lot of areas that improvement is needed in order to communicate correctly.