Another powerful line of feminist argument against sexist language is found in Robin Lakoff’s polemical work Language and Women’s Place: Text and Commentaries (1975) where she submits her theory on gender discrimination in relation to language; she is one of the first linguists to speculate about the differences in men and women’s use of language, she surveys the relationship between language, gender, and power arguing that language is fundamental to gender inequalities, and it could give a share in women’s lack of power. She maintains that “women’s language has as a foundation the attitude that women are marginal to the serious concerns of life, which are pre-empted by men” (45), ergo the patriarchal western culture and discourse become monosexual
