genderize
verbEtymology From gender + -ize.
1
To bestow gender upon; to make male or female, or assign masculine or feminine qualities to.
- By genderizing words, society makes sex-discrimination a requirement. Thus, when one sex is stipulated, the other is excluded.1981 April 4, Signe A. Dayhoff, “Sexist Language: You Become Your Label”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
- Yet the implications of implicitly genderizing ethical positions in these particular plays may be even more far reaching than it appears on the surface.2002, Helene P Foley, Female Acts in Greek Tragedy:
- Derived terms
- degenderize, overgenderize, regenderize