Questions tagged [gender-positive]
Words that indicate gender. Contrast "gender-neutral."
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What is a phrase for a person who changes their story to satisfy whoever they're addressing?
What is a phrase to describe a person (especially a woman) running for office who tells different political factions what they want to hear in order to win their vote?
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Is there an opposite gender for "lady"?
I have been wondering about this little problem for a while now. Everyone understands that, in the binary, the opposite of 'man' is 'woman', and the opposite of 'gentleman' is, namely, 'gentlewoman'.
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"Told you!", but non-gender-neutral
There is a Russian comedy playback show, and I am trying to translate several funny fragments of it.
There is a married couple. The wife dislikes the friends of the family and is annoyed by them, but ...
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Is -ist a gender-neutral ending?
A person who does mathematics is a mathematician. I assume that this is a gender-neutral term. Are words ending with "-ist" gender-neutral? (typist, type theorist, and so on) Or should I ...
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Why ships and countries are 'her' in the old texts but not 'it'?
I have read both of these two good questions and answers and I got the answer of my question, that in the modern English "it" is used more than "her" while referring to a ship or ...
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What is an appropriate female version of "his man" or "his men" for a subordinate?
When referring to the staff or soldiers of a leader I am finding myself using "his man" and "his men" when not addressing by name. But there are also females in this group and ...
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Why does using "women" as a modifier work but "men" doesn't?
Chrome's home page tab link for Womens History Month caught my eye today:
Celebrating women history makers, pioneers and future leaders
Why does this work, if it actually does, and why doesn't the ...
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Addressing a person by occupation
In Dorothy Gladys “Dodie” Smith’s 1956 children’s novel, The Hundred and One
Dalmatians,
the author writes:
But though you can call a cook ‘Cook’, the one thing you cannot call a butler is ‘Butler’
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Titles that designate female leaders
A bit of context: I'm working on a board game and I'm trying to find a title for a (fictional) female leader. It's sci-fantasy, so the title can come from pretty much any culture/era. I'd like to find ...
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What are existing gender-neutral words for various relatives? [closed]
In a world where gender identity notation is important, we need gender-neutral words to refer to relatives. "Spouse," "sibling," and "nibling" (niece or nephew) are the ...
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Pair like man/woman but clearly for sex not gender [closed]
If I want to distinguish social (or linguistic) gender and biological sex in a text, is there any polar pair of terms that clearly refers to organisms with a specific sex and not (also) to persons ...
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Is there a Word to describe Words that have Differing Masculine and Feminine Forms?
Granted that English has few such words, blond/blonde and fiancé/fiancée are the only ones that immediately come to mind. Apart from calling them "words with gender-specific forms", the closest I've ...
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What are the female and gender-neutral equivalents of ‘henpecked husband’
Inspired by this question, what are are the feminine and gender-neutral equivalents of a ‘henpecked husband’?
Would it be correct to say ‘cockpecked wife’ (even though that sounds dreadful) and ‘...
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What are the feminine equivalents of "Running mate"?
From Wikipedia:
In the United States, "running mate" refers not only to a candidate
for vice president (federal), but also to a candidate for lieutenant
governors of those states where the ...
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English terms for a female wolf and a female owl?
In the English language, what are the right terms for a female wolf and a female owl; perhaps "she wolf" and "owl hen"?
Are there distinct or separate words in English used for feminine? I checked ...
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