Language and Gender, or How to Philosophize with the Hammer

Before anything, I hereby acknowledged the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche, a title derived from his book Götzen-Dämmerung, oder, Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophiert.

Victory.Intolerance.Warfare.

Throughout ages, men have always been the leader in a lot of things. However, let's face it, men are less intelligent than women but that does not mean men are entirely stupid. To put it bluntly, men do hell a lot more stupid things than women thus ended up getting themselves killed beginning from their adolescent years. Action and men often get  into conflict with women and their emotions. While we guys are known for our egoistic predisposition, ladies are willing to receive assistance from people around them.

Going into the realms of language and gender, how can this shackle of expectation be broken? We see the rise of post modern feminists out there speaking ever loudly against the abuses and objectification that men have made them to be. Groups advocating women's rights have been quite successful in combating our testosteronic rampage for the past decades. Education is women's greatest advantage because they have higher thinking capacity than us men. Just look around you; girls are everywhere in our campus whereas the boys are pretty much scattered in small numbers. We are easily overwhelmed for God's sake.

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What are some of the words commonly associated with men and women? Let's start with the most common elements at our disposal. A guy sleeps with hundreds of women and it is still okay. Imagine if a woman does the same. What kind of treatment would she receive by the society? Women of that sort will be called slut, bitch, cunt, whore; the list just goes on and on. A man who does exactly the same thing to the opposite sex would probably be called a playboy. Sounds less abrasive if you ask me.

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Language proficiency is arguably high among women. Taken from Talbot (1998), girls are less likely to experience speech - related problems since they have advanced language learning capacity as compared to boys. Apart from that, the reading also suggests that environmental factors may have a significant role in determining human language acquisition at an early stage.