2nd Birthday Wordings

petition for candidates and candidates in the forthcoming elections

Signing the online petition launched by Study Group on Gender, language and language policies

: "Dear candidate, candidate care we propose to think about the slogans and the language we use in election campaign as well as the policies that we propose and committed. The language does not communicate only content but also reveals the way of seeing reality, and we do not want that misunderstood by those who will vote.
We ask you to renew Your way to contact the electorate by referring explicitly to women not only to men begin to talk to voters and electrical systems, to send a message to citizens and towns, inviting people and not just men. Women are no longer outside the door of the polling station: on the contrary, are increasingly participating in public life and that is why their presence should be made visible through language.
The challenge that we propose is cultural, but also profoundly political: it is time to go beyond a vague and allusive language in which the 'man' represents both the masculine and the whole human race, to get to a language of real words that indicate a non-unique individual to whom they refer. The new behavior
language that we ask you to take can be a great opportunity for change through individual awareness, the current model of society and to experiment with possible solutions for the benefit of us all and everyone. With this note you want to open with a frank, practical and effective. We hope that your campaign will involve and promote the many women's minds active for years in different fields and can be protagonists of innovative ways to build a better city and active citizenship. "

Study Group Gender, language and political language


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