There is one thing that makes me really
angry. I get up in arms when girls and women talk in a violent way to each
other’s, using sexist vocabulary. I find disgusting when a man use sexist
vocabulary with girls, and I refuse it, but I find unacceptable when a girls
does it. I mean, we live in a sexist world where our languages are built
through sexism and genre violence. It is also violent because there is a binary
conception in our social buildings that categorize male as good and
female as bad. I think that girls have to refuse the use of sexist language,
because is violent, and is charged with a lot of misconceptions that put us in an
oppressed site. But, also, I know that is hard to get out of our language, to
look deep inside, and see those types of things (the violent sense of using
some words like "maraca", for example). I think that, to see
the violence through language, we have to name, to talk and criticize those sexist
things, and become them unnatural. Maybe, if we talk about it (about violence
in language), girls would realize that they are reproducing violence when they
use some words charged with sexism.
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