Nonsexist Language & Flickr

After reading the comments regarding sexist language on Flickr, I then compared them to what our book says about sexist language. Surprisingly, their opinions seemed to be almost opposite. On Flickr, most of the people that commented did not seem to mind using sexist language and were not bothered by other people using it either. Some women commented that they did not mind being  called “girl” when males were normally referred to as “men”. One woman even went so far as to say she did not mind being called “chick” or “broad” or “honey”. The book says that we should always try to use nonsexist language. You should try to not use terms as stewardess and instead refer to them as flight attendants, for example. Also, it is important to not always list certain terms in the same order every time. For instance, you may normally say “men and women”. Our book says to switch terms like these up because it usually sounds to the audience like the first term listed is most important. I was quite surprised by how people felt about sexist language on Flickr. I thought that more women would want nonsexist language to be more prevalently used.