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The use of gendered titles and honorifics, such as "Mr", "Mrs" and "Ms" should be avoided, and congregants should be asked in private for their preferred pronouns.
In January, just before the penultimate season of HBO's Girls aired, its creator and star Lena Dunham made headlines by criticising the media's use of "gendered" and "rabidly sexist" language in coverage of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
Many entries to our project website describe how the casual and normalised use of gendered labels allows women to be belittled and sidelined in the workplace, with one saying: "at work, I am constantly patronized by men & called sweetie, love, darl and a 'good girl'.
The use of gendered stereotypes in scientific imagery can also help to perpetuate damaging stereotypes, for example by reinforcing the tendency to see females as passive.
Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University, and her colleagues analyzed more than a million books on Google's Ngram Viewer for the use of gendered pronouns published between 1900 and 2008.
On the other hand, avoid the use of gendered insults like "bitch," even if you're just joking.
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The feedback effects of the phenomenology of gendered embodiment and de se knowledge of one's subjective gender identity can therefore influence the exercise of gendered skills.
Patty Kennedy, founder of communications firm Kennedy Spencer, uses her knowledge of gendered behavior on social networking sites to better target men and women for her clients, which include Coca-Cola and P&G.
David notes that widespread use of the non-gendered term can be helpful because it conceals queerness, making marking yourself as queer more of a choice.
Using this particular form of gendered messaging is probably not something others who are concerned about the imposition of sexuality upon teenage girls, or about related issues such as unhealthy body image and low self-esteem among young women, would endorse.
We also illustrated how such vulnerabilities were exacerbated for the researcher because of the gendered use of space within the community and her need to access and recruit also the older men in their separate, gendered, community spaces.
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