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Images of Subtle Sexism

By Fannie

"[T]he LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being."

"Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man." -Genesis 2:7-22


Check out this Modern English gender pronoun chart that's in the Wikipedia entry for "He":



Observations:

1) While the letter "f" precedes "m" alphabetically, notice how "male" precedes "female" on this chart (and others).

2) Also note how in the "impersonal" category, the order of pronouns is:

"higher male animal"
"higher female animal"
"lower animal"

Is it simply a given in the English language that the male category precedes the female category which is, apparently, one step above "lower animal"?

Full post as published by Fannie's Room on July 26, 2010 (boomark / email).