Fast guide for a not sexist language

NEW EDITION OF FEBRUARY 2008.
ALSO IN CATALÀ AND GALEGO.

In Responsible Blog we have been applying the beginnings from its creation in August of the 2006 for a not sexist use of the language. Now we want to share a guide elaborated from our experience in the application of these beginnings, guide that we call 'fast' because we include in it resources that allow an immediate application of the not sexist language, with the community of Internet.

We understand for sexist language the use exclusive to one of the two genders (in general the masculine one) to refer to both, excluding the other one (even if this exclusion is involuntary, as in the majority of cases). The regulating entities of the languages justify the use of this masculine for the beginning of "language economy", since they relate a not sexist language with the dob them forms (e.g. citizens and citizens, who for "language economy" are used only by the masculine one), which is a false commonplace. The double forms are, in fact, the resource less recommended in this guide.

So, to use the language in a not sexist way implies learning to talk again, as we commented in this I pole it does time to explain the learning process.

Novelties new edition February 2008. Examples have been updated, added a glossary of not sexist terms and a demonstration of how the not sexist language does not generate inflation of words, and adapted the guide to the Catalan and Galician one.

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Join the campaign for a not sexist language

If you have a blog or a web site, join the campaign for a not sexist language assuming the beginnings and recommendations of the guide when writing out the texts and contents, and it adds the logo of the campaign with the link to this page: http://sin-sexismos.blogresponsable.com/.

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If you communicate it to us in coordinacion@blogresponsable.com and/or in the field 'comments' of this I pole we will add your web site to the listing of free places of sexist language.

To join the campaign means that:

It will be tried to follow all the beginnings of the guide from the moment of the adhesion under the beginning of good will, that is, which account is to take part with good intention, there can always be oversights or not to have all the linguistic solutions, that is a human being, truth?

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Free places of sexist language

Adhesions to the campaign for a not sexist language:
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Contributions and suggestions to the guide

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Glossary to prevent sexisms

The equipment of Responsible Blog will keep providing the ideas in this section to solve different sexisms in the use of the language (more recent in red). You also can take part in this glossary through the comments.

• Stockholders (the) = Shareholders (the)
• Amateurs and members... = The interest, member or not...
• Mayor = Town Council
• Pupils = Student Body, students (without article), the estudiantado (with article)
• American = American Population, American citizenship
• Friends = Friendships
• Ancestors (the) = Ancestry
• Authors = Authorship, the one who signs
• Welcome = Hello, Damos/give the welcome, Wed/ours welcome
• Each = Cada cual, every who
• Embarrassing = have an appointment, appointment
• Council of ministers = Governmental Board
• Consumers = Consumption, the one who consumes
• Citizens = Citizenship
• Customers = Clients, those who buy
• Competitors = Competence, competitor companies
• Directive = Address
• Doctors = Hospital ("said it the doctores"="le said in hospital")
• Owner = Estate
• (It implies) Be clean = (It implies) Tidiness
• (We live) Empeñados = Vivimos with determination
• Used = Staff, staff, those who work
• Businessmen = Employers
• Spanish = Las Spanish people, the Spanish population, those who live in Spain
• Expert = expert people, those who know
• Famous = famous People, VIP people, famoseo
• Man (genérico)= Human Being, humanity
• Native (the) = Native Population
• Invited = invited People, assistance
• Judge = Judgeship, magistracy
  
• Readers = those who read
• Those that think that = Quienes think that
• The others = El rest of the people, other people, the rest
• Many think = As many people know, many people think
• Children = Childhood, creatures, younger
• We: Different to us = Different to every cual, we, Nosotros, value = Yo I value (when it is plural of modesty) or simply we 'value' (to obviate the pronoun)
• (The) Otro/sec = Otras people, other parts
  
• Political = Politicians
• Ponentes (the) = Communications, ponentes (without article)
• Professors = Teaching Staff
• Supplying = Proveeduría, supply, supplying companies or simply 'suppliers' (for coherence then they are companies, entities, maquilas, factories, organizations, people... feminine terms all of them the most general, except that previously is referred to more specific terms as 'factories')
• If same = every cual
• (For) Todos = (for) Quien or, Totality the world
• Deputy mayor = Possession of town council / Lieutenant/to of town council
• We all know = Totality the world knows / In excess is known
• Working = Staff, staff, working people, people, those who work
• Users = Usuariado
• Travellers = those who travel
• Voluntary = Voluntary Workers

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Resources, articles and opinion

• Themis, braces on line of sexist language.
  
• Dictionary of the Discrimination of the Woman in the Language, analysis interesate of the different forms of discrimination in the language of Mª Cristina Garay Andrade.
  
• The Recipe, audio-visual work based on the world of the restoration on not sexist language
  
• Rebutting what otrOs say of the not sexist language, for Olga Castro Vázquez. Interesting analysis of the usual objections to the not sexist language.
• Learning a not sexist language. After the "raids" on the not sexist language that has been repeated in ATRIUM with so much participation and enthusiasm, many people have started to be questioned if really it is true that there is some problem, or more or if only they are things of the feminists, even if it is been able and it must be done a little more than is being done...
• A calentito book. After some years of delay and multiple vicissitudes, this precious and essential volume in which I also feel proud of taking part came out at last: "Of equality and differences. Ten studies of gender"
• A study of Foundation CTIC makes signs of change evident in the language towards a not sexist Web. Carried out within the framework of the project "Web with Gender" it provides recommendations of great utility for who develop and edit web pages.
• Or sexism na lingua. Several articles of Olga Castro, translator and adaptadora of our fast Guide for a not sexist language in Galician, in three deliveries in Vieiros: first, second, third.
• Reform of the Colombian Civil Code to prevent the sexisms, in the Citizenship blog and Constitution.
• Themis, computer tool of payment for the revision of sexist language on web pages and documents.
• "Recomendacións for unha linguaxe non discriminatory na Inter-Union Confederation Galega". Interesting guide with boards to prevent sexisms.
• Not sexist language. Writing for El Mercurio Digital. Esteril is the fight of the women for its equality and vain is the informative effort of the means for supporting this determination if our language exalts the achievements of a single sex, generally the masculine one, and subordinates or makes invisible those of the other one.
• Contribution to the debate on the sexist language. If the goal is to study the male chauvinism that there is after our words then is as important that we find male chauvinism where there is one as that we do not find it where there is not any.
• Palimpsetos. Commentary articles on sexist language in this blog on language and society.
• Equality of gender: book notes Lucía Etxebarría. The authoress of the blog analyzes the sexist and excluding language in the books of Lucía Etxebarría.
• If you do not want to be sexist: Take care of your language, says everything! The Asturian Institute of the Woman launches a publication that advises talking in a less sexist way in order to break moulds and including the woman, preventing usual practices as the constant use of the masculine gender.
• Coeducation. I space out to educate in equality. Articles on sexist language in this web space on equality.
• Parity in the language? The conciliation of gender: between the need and the provocation. article of María Luisa Velasco published in Europe Press. In it he reflects on the linguistic function in the fight for the full inclusion of the women in the social, political and economic life. María Luisa Velasco* /Europe Press (30/08/2007). "We are realistic, we avoid the nonsense of feminizing it everything as well as the abuse of the masculine one"
• (In català) ADREÇAT A AN ESCRIPTORA THAT EQUIVOCAVA ELS GÈNERES PER FAULT D'UN FEMINISME BADLY ENTÈS. Dedicat to the secció Filològica of l'Institut d'Estudis Catalans per the seva enormous tavern of placing to the dia, amb so many promptitud the lexical norm of the nostra llengua.

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