Genders

                After watching Charlie’s video on the difference between girls and boys, my mind immediately jumped to the gender agreements in languages. I took Spanish from kindergarten through 10^th grade and begun French in 11^th grade. Both of these languages have grammatical gender agreements where something is either “feminine” or “masculine.” A group of girls use the feminine agreements, and a group of guys use the masculine agreements. What’s interesting is that a group of both girls and guys use the masculine agreement. In every situation, in both French and Spanish, where girls and boys are both present the masculine ALWAYS overrides the feminine. In our society and within our languages and other like things, there are engraved sexist rules and ways that are present from the day we are born such as my example of genders in language. So, it feels almost impossible to reverse the idea that men are superior to women unless you question the base of our society.