Gender Bias In Language

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In the beginning of the ceremony, the father is asked who gives the bride away and he answers, "I do." The problem here is that it is at this point that Neilsen contends that the gender bias comes into play. The traditional concept of the bride as something to be handed from one man (the father) to another man (the husband-to-be) is perpetuated (52)...
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Another example is in the instance of sexual relationships. The women become brides while men wed women. The man takes away a woman's virginity and a woman loses her virginity. This denotes her inability, apparently due to her gender, to hold on to something that is a part of her, and enforcing the man's ability and right to claim something that is not his...
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