By Philip H. Herbst
This identify takes on phrases and expressions that malign gender or sexual orientation, or create controversy and confusion. some of the phrases or expressions during this dictionary are recognizeable instantly for his or her bias, others are phrases we frequently use with no understanding their underlying that means or with no realizing how their meanings were twisted to fit the needs of these who demean others. The expressions make clear how our lives are formed by means of discovered notions of gender and sexual orientation - specifically, how phrases are used to place a few teams down and privilege others. The dictionary presents: etymologies, substitute spellings, the whole diversity of definitions, adjustments in that means over the years or between quite a few teams, and quotations.
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Additional resources for Wimmin, Wimps, and Wallflowers: An Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Gender and Sexual Orientation Bias in the United States
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See DOG. barney. A man seen as socially inept, homely, or plainly dressed; a nerd. In the 1960s TV comedy sitcom The Andy Griffith Show, Don Knotts was aptly named Barney Fife, an inept if zealous deputy sheriff often described as one of the “naïve but noble rubes” who made that show and others with a similar rural orientation popular. ” Compare it with more demeaning words for homely or backward women, such as BIFFER, DOG, or DOUCHEBAG (the emphasis in the attacks on women is more on appearance than on competence).
In Buchwald, Fletcher, and Roth 1993, 232–33) See also BLONDE (dumb blonde), DOLL, LOOKSISM. barefoot and pregnant (keep them). A cliché that has come to be used by femi- bat nists as a shorthand way of expressing what they see as men’s traditional desire to keep women dependent and tied down—to the home and the domestic role. Boles and Hoeveler (1996) note that local chapters of the National Organization for Women (NOW) once offered “Barefoot and Pregnant Awards” to men in mockery of acts of egregious sexism.
Rodgers (1972) says it has also had some pejorative use to mean loss of sexual attractiveness, getting old, fading in one’s beauty. See also BEAUTY, COQUETTE, EFFEMINATE, GAY, LOOKSISM, MARY, TACO (taco belle). belle mère. See MOTHER-IN-LAW. berdache. A Native American biological male who adopts the dress and ways of a woman. Native American women, too, have had a similar institution and might also be called berdaches, though AMAZON has had some use in referring to the female counterpart of the generally male concept of berdache.