Is the dictionary sexist? Petition calls for Oxford English Dictionary to remove sexist terms for women.
A petition that now has nearly 30,000 signatures and counting on Change.org was started by a simple online search.
“I was like, 'What’s going on? Why are these the synonyms?,” Giovanardi, 28, told “Good Morning America.” “I don’t see myself like this as a woman.Giovanardi learned the information about the word"woman" she saw online came from content produced by Oxford University Press, a department of the University of Oxford in the U.K. that also produces the Oxford English Dictionary .
Giovanardi took action by starting the Change.org petition titled,"Change Oxford Dictionary’s Sexist Definition of ‘Woman.'""One of our goals was to have as many signatures as the Oxford student body, which is around 24,000 students, so we achieved that goal," she said."But the more pressure the better so we hope to get more and more."
"These texts are based on the methodologies of descriptive, corpus-based lexicography, meaning that editors analyse large quantities of evidence from real-life use to determine the meanings of words," the post explains in part."If there is evidence of an offensive or derogatory word or meaning being widely used in English, it will not be excluded from the dictionary solely on the grounds that it is offensive or derogatory.
Giovanardi's petition definitely started a conversation, which is what she told"GMA" was one of her goals. This was actually a pretty throwaway suggestion at the end of a long list of other demands. But even if it hadn’t been, the anger about it is misplaced. Lobbying dictionaries to make their definitions fit your political preferences is misguided—/2
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