Feminist philosophy of language and its inequality in treating males and females in our society based on gender bias intentionally or unintentionally.
Reading the Stanford Encyclopedia of philosophy and the Identity Terms opened my eyes to a new world where simple words can describe powerful men and others can describe a weak woman. Reading books in Arabic, French, and English all suggested that this gender bias exists in all the languages because most of the culture gives the men the power and the woman is always the nurturer. I can also admit that thanks to recent feminist advocates and philosophers we saw a huge impact on feminism and it improved the way we look and describe a female.
The woman is not the follower, the nurturer, the weak body, and the intellectual female, but we see more of diversion and more of a positive involvement of women from all ages in all ranges of higher positions. so our language has to reflect that change as well.
Let’s say the Chief officer or the chairman is a woman why can’t she be called a chairwoman? Maleness should not be the norm anymore.
”There is sexism in language, it does enhance the position of males, and males have had control over the production of cultural forms. (Spender 1985: 144)”, once a person is born a male, he can claim all the power even in the language because he is the strongest and the most dominant creature.
Another issue was that ”One sort of criticism was that philosophy of language, like English, displays a male bias. Another was simply that philosophy of language is ill-equipped to further feminist aims”.
Society’s influence went beyond the family, the culture, and put a huge stamp on the language as well and made it male-centered. what if we were living in a world where women dominate more, will we be having the same issues, will we dominate the language and make it woman-centered?
Eventually, strength, dedication, working hard, and having a positive attitude toward anything can make a big change in resolving any gender bias issues. Genetic, physiology should not limit anyone and restrict their abilities and their dreams especially our communication and our language.
