genderize
English
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Verb
genderize (third-person singular simple present genderizes, present participle genderizing, simple past and past participle genderized)
- (transitive) To bestow gender upon; to make male or female, or assign masculine or feminine qualities to.
- 1981 April 4, Signe A. Dayhoff, “Sexist Language: You Become Your Label”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
- By genderizing words, society makes sex-discrimination a requirement. Thus, when one sex is stipulated, the other is excluded.
- 2002, Helene P Foley, Female Acts in Greek Tragedy:
- Yet the implications of implicitly genderizing ethical positions in these particular plays may be even more far reaching than it appears on the surface.
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to bestow gender upon
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