by Ulla Sarja

Created on: May 29, 2009   Last Updated: June 01, 2009

In The Beginning there was the Word and the Word was created by a Man

"When users of the words began to understand how important it was to name things, the one who was the cause of masculinity began to call his body for male and himself for Man. Those who were the cause of feminity called their bodies for feme and themselves for fem. They understood that it was wise to give both kinds of people names as themselves, as separate named agents, and therefore the wisdom was called sapience. As a whole they called themselves for Homo sapience, living creatures, meant to be wise, and given the name of the reality as it is reflected in the language. Several decades later the man began to believe that he had a special force for innovation and became convinced that the feme had not the same force and that is why she was evil. To make her more like him, he gave her body a new name Fe + male and he called her conciousness for wo + man. Thereafter, he created the word hu + man to describe the whole group and so he stopped using the name sapience. The word hu + man got wo + man to feel included in the word. The man thought that the word hu + man assigned innovation of goodness for wo + man and made her goodness like him. After several thousand years feme had forgotten that there was a time when she was called for fem. Wo + man never enjoyed of living in the man's Republic but she could not give a name to her sense of discomfort. One day she felt courage enough to tell the man and said: "I am not wo + man." The man said, 'OK, what are you? What is your name? "She did not know. She could not give herself a name. And the man said:" Wo + men who do not know who they are, are stupid wo + men. "So, feme continued to be a man who was called wo + man. "

There are a number of linguists who have studied the power between men and women and how language influence them. The language of course, plays a major role in the development of the concept of self and the sense of the self.
Already when a child is small, he/she is able to use a language as a tool in the construction of the concept of the self. Only an eloquent man is able to reflect on himself and his behaviour. The language is not important only for the early self but, in general, assisting in organizing experiences, as well as everything related to one's own person.

There are different views about the impact on the sexistic language. This applies for example, the use of the English pronouns Man and He to describe both sex

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