disc sex lang remarks discussion comments newman meunier widespread constructivist concept personality sex roles language seriously injured jane goodall say interpretation wrong preoccupation feminist studies sex roles language diffusion preoccupation corridors university began assault normativity e kneejerk heteropartnershipping late 1960s attracted opposite sex society teaches us thumbs tolerance real diversity curing real ills society needs individual group thumbs intuitive scholarship academic shamanism prescriptive grammas jane goodall window houghton mifflin company boston 1990 thirty years chimpanzees gombe p 118 one important milestones life young male begins travel away mother members community severing apron strings far necessary young male young female learn needs know successful adult life whilst remaining family setting watch mother mother friends caring infants actually handle gaining much experience need later baby learn mother pink days good deal sex demands subsequently made sphere young male different things learn aspects community life primarily though entirely male responsibilities adsuch patrolling repelling intruders searching distant food sources kinds hunting gain adequate experience matters remains mother must leave spend time males 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d michael newman provides welcome references literature provide data specific know generally terms semantically marked gender marine lumberjack nurse regarding biases masculine interpretation doubt current state language centuries modern english modern english era also feminine pronoun michael newman skeptical pernicious influences grammar ot aspects cognition whereas lydie meunier says studies psychology shown females reading texts written generiche retain less information read texts using generic plural newman goes express accord moulton kleenex effect whereby identity prestigious subset assumed superordinated category result people tend think subset prototypical sounds like individualfor theclass synechdoche think prestigious subset sufficiently describes man phenomena hit mark head assumes man woman man kleenex puffs kleenex think use term tautonym focuses little sharper genusspecies aspect difference coke pepsi like difference joe john different order boys girls suggesting another way see generic phenomenon part supported quoted detail jakobson posts back man living generic person made distinctive sex contrast juxtapostion woman generic man language describes generic man inthe flesh unmarked sex lydie meunier glad know someone linguistic expertise sociolinguistic practices biblical times could provide chapters verses moreor less slavery wives husbands true kinds depravities bible f act joshua quite ethnic cleanser know anything bible wives slaves treated wou ld doubleslaves finally use word sexism popular common cultural vocabulary aside political slogan could appropriately define nonpolitical slogan sense use jeff weber