NewcollegeEnglish.pptVIP

Thanks for Your Attention! Interpreting Opinions The poem can be paraphrased as follows: Men should work in the field and women in the house; Men should be trained to fight and women to mend and sew; Men are motivated by the intellect and women by the heart; Men are meant to give orders and women to obey orders; If the roles aren’t divided this way, there will be confusion. Directions: Sexist language assigns roles or characteristics to people on the basis of gender. One of the most widespread occurrences of sexist language is the use of the pronoun he to refer to someone of unidentified sex.