The Guardian
Eight words that reveal the sexism at the heart of the English language
"the history of terms that refer to women shows how deep negative attitudes go"
In this article from the 'Guardian' the blogger goes into detail about the history of sexist remarks made about women. He says that linguists call it collocation (the likelihood of two words occurring together), however his argument is that sexism through language is deeply rooted from the 'English speaking world' and not at the fault of the dictionary that they suggest.
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