Deconstructing Gendered Language; Feminist World-Making 2024

For my capstone seminar. A culmination of research into the reproduction of gender through language, especially in the collegiate environment.

1. o.k. now I want you to imagine a woman

2. and o.k. I want you to imagine a man.

3. o.k. now I want you to ask yourself why you imagined a man this way and imagined a woman that way.

4. so o.k. now I want you to imagine a demographic question that looks like Male Female

5. I want you to imagine …based on his or her responses.

6. I want you to imagine Sample included 211 women and 89 men for a total of 300 participants.

7. I want you to imagine I don’t use “they”. It’s not grammatically correct.

8. well o.k. o.k.

9. “o.k. now can you imagine,” the screen says, “that these words are the first words you have ever read and you are having to sound them out letter by letter?”

10. arranged you that been pattern o.k. some have intentional now in words imagine these will?

11. o.k. n w c n y u im ine th t th se w rds a e n t m is ng a y l tt rs ?

12. o.k. now can you imagine these words are written in a color not on the visible spectrum of light?  

13. and can you imagine these words are a feeling that you cannot articulate?

14. o.k. and now can you imagine these words: male/female men/women masculine/feminine his/hers ladies/gentlemen if you stop yourself from imagining their imagined meanings?

15. o.k. okay.

16. so if you can imagine malefemale as a single word, three syllables

17. if you can imagine malefemale as what we say when someone sneezes

18. if you can imagine malefemale as what we call animals most active at night

19. if you can imagine malefemale as why we shouldn’t put utensils in the microwave

20. if you can

21. imagine malefemale is a word I just made up,

22. and if you can, imagine male female means whatever you want.

23. o.k. now

24. imagine a woman. imagine a man.