Pejorative terms for people

promises erotic bliss, he insinuates that playing house will be something special this time, and that he really wants to play! The song is a plea from the singer to his girlfriend to return to him because he wants to "play house" with her, an informal term for a couple who are just dating or sleeping together. Despite the singer's actions, he offers an ultimatum telling his girl, "I'd rather see you dead than with another man." Many of the singles sing of loss, of the blues, imperfect blues, of…

No “Slum” for Feminism Recent massive transnational protests named “SlumWalk” have marked a new form of rage from modern women’s right activists, stirring varied societal objections towards feminists. From a defiant display of a thousand women dressing in underwear and fishnets storming down the streets of Toronto, to public declarations from different well-known feminists stating they will never fight for the right to be called slums, the re-appropriation of the word “slum” has reinforced the…

According to McNamara “On a literal, factual, narrative level, this account of manifestations of change in Dimmesdale is pejorative. But on a figurative level, the opposite interpretation is possible and valid in the light of both antecedent and subsequent action”(McNamara 549) . On election day Hester sees a change in Dimmesdale but she does not know the reason why. Regardless…

between the two roles of gender, and many people couldn’t stray from this constructed idea. Also in early societies, women were deemed to gathering surplus from the ground, and men were constructed as hunters. Until recently these arbitrary socially constructed ideas were not challenged by individuals in society. From this video, there are numerous anthropological concepts and notions that employ how society has constructed the idea of femininity. In history people have constructed an…

Face is a term that explains a person’s image. Goffman tells us that we all live in a world that is full of social interactions (Goffman, 1967). Face is the positive and social value a person claims himself by the line others assume he has during a particular interaction. Through this people can worry about the future, know what feels good, bad, and so on (Goffman, 1967). Language ideologies are sets of ideas and values of why people speak and what it means (some examples, why is your accent…

“Sibling” walks planned in over 75 cities around the globe (Valenti, 2011). Many of the women who participate in these walks dress in “clothing that would typically be considered ‘slutty’,” and carry signs emblazoned with the word “slut” or other pejoratives often used to describe women in an effort to communicate their message (Schutte, 2012, 116-118). So, why do they do it? These women have used dress as a keystone to bring them all together and create the foundation of an entire global…

The central tenet of any such curriculum is that society has a place for all people, regardless of gender, age, ability and sexual orientation. For our male students, this means using their critical thinking skills to analyze how and why multiple levels of oppression converge to act against certain groups. A young man taking a course…

Pink brain vs. blue brain. It’s not that simple. You are you. We are people and should not be confined to the simple label’s that are forced in our face by society. You must wear a dress! You must walk with your head held high and your chin up. You must not speak until you are spoken to and your attire must always look new and classy. These are the words that have been said to me most of my life and fit right under the definition of the gender roles that our society has created. Everyone 's…

resulting in 1 execution. In Essex during the same period; a county which seemed identical in ways of belief and social structure and which shared the same laws; there were 473 indictments and 82 executions. The case of Essex seems exceptional in terms of numbers, but the general pattern of how witchcraft occurred seems similar to other cases in Britain. There were few cases of witches recorded as having sex with the devil, which was one of the characteristics of a witch outlines the mallus…

Jane Austen once said, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife” (Austen 1). In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen initiates the society's corrupted views on love and marriage during the 19th century. Austen wrote this novel during the early 1700’s in England, contributing endless wit, irony, cynicism towards her views on marriage and love during that era. In the novel, Mrs. Bennett contains anxiety for pushing her…