Sentences with phrase «of sexist language»

Using a Point of Order, Creagh accused Hammond of using «the sort of sexist language that diminishes women» and argued that he would not have used the same phrase if she were a man.

Let us hope that the sheer success of this version, the first major translation seriously to tackle the issue of sexist language, will encourage the Education Commission to let the translators finish the job.

All these excellences (and there are too many to count) will probably be eclipsed in the public mind by the NRSV's treatment of sexist language.

It has raised consciousness about the use of sexist language in the churches and resulted in some changes there.

(I prefer the Scylia of sexist language to the Charybdis of unreadable constructions such as «him - or - herself.»)

The use of sexist language in the public sphere is poised to become a very big — and long overdue — issue in coming months.

Not exact matches

Unquestionably the issues raised are of far more fundamental theological and religious importance than cleaning up sexist language and electing women bishops, important as those achievements are.

First of all, responsible liturgical revision can not consist only in the use of more contemporary language or in the avoidance of what are known as «sexist» phrases (which are so dominantly masculine that women often feel excluded from what is going on) or in a return to biblical idiom to replace other (perhaps medieval) terminology.

I feel a warm glow and a sense of affirmation when I learn of churches which are eliminating sexist language from their worship services and liturgy, of ministers who are studying and preaching about feminist theology and the Mother - Father God, of consciousness - raising groups and task forces on sexism in the church.

Our nation has, of course, always contained people who, needing to denigrate and dehumanize others, have relied on racist and sexist language.

Although Whitehead did not see the implications of this passage for our patriarchal society with its sexist images and language, his warning seems to foreshadow what many women, and some men, are coming to recognize.

They began forty years ago when a mandate was issued to the translators of the NRSV to eradicate all «sexist» language.

The Bible has been shorn of language deemed to be sexist.

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John Bercow, the speaker of the Commons, tells off the foreign secretary for using sexist language

I think it is incredibly important for all New Yorkers, but particularly those in public life, to make very clear that in this city, the most diverse city in the world, the city where the LGBT civil rights movement was born, that that type of language can not be tolerated... I think that all of us need to recommit to making sure that whenever we hear language of any type that is demeaning, derogatory, racist, sexist, homophobic, anything of that nature that we speak out against it.»

If Bernie Sanders does not want to be seen as someone who uses sexist language and perpetuates a dangerous sexist stereotype of strong women, then he should tell his people to stop.

These microaggressions included four instances of sexual objectification, 26 instances of treating females as second - class citizens, 44 instances of racist or sexist language or jokes, 61 instances of restrictive gender roles, and 30 instances of focusing on the athletes» physical body types and shapes.

Kind of like an entrepreneurial troll, Wade has learnt what cocktail of sexist concepts and deliberately antagonistic language to use to get his sites attention.

But Matias Caruso's script seems to think this language is subversive instead of sexist, just because he shoved it into the mouths of female characters.

A lawyer for the Education Department's office for civil rights in San Francisco recently decided to help the University of California rewrite its course catalog, with the aim of deleting allegedly sexist language.

Abuse is mainly seen in the form of sexist, racist, homophobic or highly offensive language, while remarks concerning teachers» appearance, sexuality and competence are also on the up.

The study reveals sexist language and gender stereotypes are a typical feature of school culture, contributing to a climate in which sexual harassment is commonplace.

Sixty - four per cent of teachers in mixed secondary schools also state that they hear sexist language in schools on at least a weekly basis.

Some are predictably derogatory to women, demonstrating the continued ubiquity of sexist attitudes reinforced by language, while others are directly recovered from obsolescence, representing the nuanced mix of confusion, humor, self - deprecation, and empowerment that accompanies the shifting consciousness of women.

Her shooting events were also widely covered by local and international media, with most of the early reviews deploying sexist language that served to undermine her intentions.

Of course, the Greens abhor empirical scientific methodology as a sexist rape of knowledge, but by appropriating the language of science to advance faith - based mythology they achieve two things: First, they appropriate the authority of science, which in the modern world is the official seal of all approved knowledge and secondly by debasing science in the service of myth, the Greens vandalise the cognitive process of rational inquirOf course, the Greens abhor empirical scientific methodology as a sexist rape of knowledge, but by appropriating the language of science to advance faith - based mythology they achieve two things: First, they appropriate the authority of science, which in the modern world is the official seal of all approved knowledge and secondly by debasing science in the service of myth, the Greens vandalise the cognitive process of rational inquirof knowledge, but by appropriating the language of science to advance faith - based mythology they achieve two things: First, they appropriate the authority of science, which in the modern world is the official seal of all approved knowledge and secondly by debasing science in the service of myth, the Greens vandalise the cognitive process of rational inquirof science to advance faith - based mythology they achieve two things: First, they appropriate the authority of science, which in the modern world is the official seal of all approved knowledge and secondly by debasing science in the service of myth, the Greens vandalise the cognitive process of rational inquirof science, which in the modern world is the official seal of all approved knowledge and secondly by debasing science in the service of myth, the Greens vandalise the cognitive process of rational inquirof all approved knowledge and secondly by debasing science in the service of myth, the Greens vandalise the cognitive process of rational inquirof myth, the Greens vandalise the cognitive process of rational inquirof rational inquiry.

It presages a law captured by the rhetoric of the right to freedom of expression without due regard to the value underlying the particular exercise of that right; a law in which, under the guise of the right to freedom of expression, the «right» to offend can be exercised without responsibility or restraint providing it does not cause a disruption or disturbance in the nature of public disorder; a law in which an impoverished amoral concept of «public order» is judicially ordained; a law in which the right to freedom of expression trumps — or tramples upon — other rights and values which are the vital rights and properties of a free and democratic society; a law to which any number of vulnerable individuals and minorities may be exposed to uncivil, and even odious, ethnic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Islamic taunts providing no public disorder results; a law in which good and decent people can be used as fodder to promote a cause or promote an action for which they are not responsible and over which they have no direct control; a law which demeans the dignity of the persons adversely affected by those asserting their right to freedom of expression in a disorderly or offensive manner; a law in which the mores or standards of society are set without regard to the reasonable expectations of citizens in a free and democratic society; and a law marked by a lack of empathy by the sensibilities, feelings and emotional frailties of people who can be deeply and genuinely affronted by language and behaviour that is beyond the pale in a civil and civilised society.

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