Abstract
Despite numerous studies of sex bias in language during the past fifteen years, only rarely has anti-male bias been examined. In part, this neglect occurs because many of these studies have been based upon assumptions which are questionable at best and which at worst exhibit their own form of sex bias. Whether explicitly or implicitly, many of these studies reduce human history to a tale of male oppressors and female victims or rebels. In this view of things, all societies become patriarchal societies, a familiar term used to suggest that for centuries males have conspired to exploit and demean females. Accordingly, it is alleged in many of these studies that men control language and that they use it to define women and women's roles as inferior.
Recommended Citation
August, Eugene R.
(1986)
"Real Men Don't, or Anti-Male Bias in English,"
University of Dayton Review: Vol. 18:
No.
2, Article 15.
Available at:
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/udr/vol18/iss2/15
