A edição 49 da revista Focus Brasil se aprofunda sobre a mudança de função da Petrobrás e como o desmonte da estatal causam enormes prejuízos para o povo brasileiro. O entrevistado da semana é o ex-presidente da petrolífera, José Sérgio Gabrielli. A revista também apresenta análises sobre a situação econômica do país e relata a indignação diante da ação do governo e de sua base no Congresso…
[Revista] Focus Brasil #48 - Mulheres de luta #FocusBrasil #RevistaFocusBrasil #blogdodcvitti ツ
A edição 48 da revista Focus Brasil homenageia o Dia Internacional da Mulher e a luta para conquistar e defender direitos. A luta contra Bolsonaro e o bolsonarismo também faz parte desta edição. A ex-presidenta Dilma Rousseff é a entrevistada da semana e fala sobre a cultura machista e patriarcal no Brasil. A Focus Brasil trata ainda da conjuntura brasileira e da guerra na Ucrânia, suas…
Plano de Contingência do Município de Ilhota #blogdodcvitti ツ
Um documento importante dever ser amplamente compartilhado com todos e para todos, que após muita persistência, conseguimos adquirir uma cópia e fazer com o Plano público esteja disponibilizado no portal da Prefeitura de Ilhota na internet. O Plano de Contingência é o planejamento preventivo e alternativo da organização para atuação durante um evento que afete as atividades normais do município.…
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O grito da terra e dos pobres, emitido pelo Papa Francisco já em 2015, assim como seu “convite a procurar outras maneiras de entender a economia e o progresso, o valor próprio de cada criatura, o sentido humano da ecologia, a necessidade de debates sinceros e honestos”, foram ouvidos e aceitos por Guilherme Delgado que, com este, chega ao seu quinto livro autoral. O autor desenvolve em oito…
[Revista] Focus Brasil #47 - A guerra na Europa #FocusBrasil #RevistaFocusBrasil #blogdodcvitti ツ
A edição 47 da revista Focus Brasil trata da guerra entre Rússia e Ucrânia e algumas das consequências para o Brasil. A Focus ainda levanta as passagens misóginas e machistas de Jair Bolsonaro que faz de tudo para impor retrocessos à vida das mulheres. Na entrevista da semana, a psicanalista Maria Rita Kehl analisa o comportamento de Jair Bolsonaro e o aponta como representante dos ressentidos,…
[Revista] Focus Brasil #43 - A luta contra a desigualdade
[Revista] Focus Brasil #43 - A luta contra a desigualdade #FocusBrasil #RevistaFocusBrasil #blogdodcvitti ツ
A edição 43 da revista Focus Brasil chama atenção para o aumento da desigualdade social em níveis absurdos. Jair Bolsonaro e seus ministros vêm impondo à maioria da população brasileira condições de vida cada vez mais precárias. A Focus também trata das últimas pesquisas de opinião, da fortuna de Sergio Moro oriunda das empresas que foram alvo da Lava Jato e também publica entrevista com o…
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Growing up in France, it was impossible not to know that language is sexist. One of the first grammar rules I learnt was that “le masculin l'emporte”: no matter how many feminine nouns there is in an enumeration, as long as there is at least one masculine one, adjectives, past participles and the lot take the masculine.
English grammar doesn’t have this kind of rule, yet it counts many words that are only used to describe women. “Nagging” has been bothering me lately. Only women seem to be nagging. I just Googled “nagging man” - the third suggestion was “man kills nagging wife”. The fourth, “man shoots nagging wife”. This is sexist language used to justify violence against women. The words we choose are an integral part of ingrained sexism, as I was reminded reading Marina Keegan’s The Opposite of Loneliness. In one of her short stories, she writes about how the female character’s boyfriend had started to resent “her nagging habit”, in order to show how the couple is falling out of love.
In her March interview with men’s magazine Esquire,Emma Watson talked about how, even though she is engaged with feminism every day, she keeps tripping up on language. “I say "guys” to a room of girls all the time", she explained, which is when I realised that I do that too.
Working in luxury fashion, the majority of my co-workers are women. There are three men in my team of 17. For too long, that didn’t stop me from opening emails with “Hi guys”, or saying it in meetings. I’m paying attention to it now, though I still fall short of stopping myself every time. I’ve also started calling people out on it. I always get told that “guys” is a generic term, not a gendered one. Except it is doing much the same as French grammar: assuming that it is acceptable to choose a noun describing men to define women. Calling a group of women “guys” is acceptable, but many groups of men would take umbrage to being called “girls”.
Earlier this year, criminal defense lawyer Nancy Hollander recounted a great anecdote about how she convinced a judge, early in her career, to stop referring to all counsel as “gentlemen”. It inspires me every time I encounter sexist language at work. Read it here and send me your stories of how you deal with sexist language.
And here are some of the best replies:
Emily of the Women’s Foundationsays “words are everything” and reminded me of how, when actresses complain about being called ‘actresses’, we make them all 'actors’ which is similar to calling all people 'guys’.
Joyce at Facilitating Peace had an excellent point about how in French, women and girls are defined by their relationship to men. There are only two words covering woman, wife, girl and daughter (femme and fille) whereas there are four to refer to men at similar stages of their lives (homme, mari, garcon and fils).
Ashley of The Broad Experiencepointed out that considering 'guys’ to be neutral but 'gals’ or 'girls’ not to be is similar to considering the colour blue to be neutral but pink to be girly.
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