blog #16 Johnson, Fern L., and Karren Young. "Gendered Voices in Children's Television Advertising."

Advertisers know exactly what to put on to catch the attention of kids. Now and days kids rely on tv and the internet for everything from pop culture to education. This leaves a gigantic door open for advertisers to get whatever message they want through. Although parents and teachers do their part in instructing young kids these days to do the correct thing, it's becoming more and more difficult because of our digital reliance on everything. I think in the future this problem will only be expanding. It'll be rare 20 years from now to see kids playing outside like we once did. This makes advertising on television and other forms of communication that much more effective.

Artz, Jeanne Munger, and Warren Pundy. “Gender Issues in Advertising.”

Boys and girl, men and women are attracted to different visuals. The marketing companies know this well and format their ads to draw as much attention towards that specific group as much as possible. With young girls they focus on showing the glamorous side as much as possible. With young boys they focus on action figures and very male dominant characters. All these advertising strategies are to draw as much attention as possible to their products. Advertising clearly is the reason on what sales and what doesnt sale.

blog #14 Martyna, Wendy. "Beyond the "He/Man" Approach: The Case for Nonsexist Language."

I think eventually our language will change enough to better reflect both sexes but as for now and the near future, not much will be done. I however do not believe there will ever come a time where our language will be completely nonsexist. The reason why I believe this is because the sexists in our language is a direct reflection of our history. To completely make it nonsexist will be to erase our entire history. Our language is a product of thousands of years of speech. Unless we completely come up with a different way to speak our language will always in some small way or form be sexist.

post #13 Henley, Nancy M. “Molehill or Mountain? What We Know and don't Know about Sex Bias in Language.”

I agree with Henley when she says that girls had to learn type II rule of masculine generic during their early school days while boys learned type I growing up. Girls do have to learn to differentiate things by sex and use the correct terminology while boys often to everything as he. I think this happens because in our society we view girls/women to be more proper therefore it is important that they refer to things correctly. Boys on the other hard are given the freedom to make mistakes and these mistakes in terminology made by boys are not corrected right away because society believes it is okay. I think language affects and reflects thoughts. They we speak says a lot about how we are as a society but it also reflects how we are as well. Our views, thoughts, and beleives are reflected through our speech.

BLOG #12 Cameron, Deborah. Chp. 6: "Making Changes: The Debate on Sexist Language."

I agree with Deborah in that we unconciously make these sexist remarks and that just because we unconciously do it doesn't mean it is okay. I think until we as a people become more educated on this issue it'll be kept under radar and only the few that care enough to do some digging will notice. I'm positive many Americans and people from other nations don't even notice how sexist our language is. Everyone has been taught to speak this way so unless you carefully disect word for word it's pretty hard to see how sexist our speech can be at times.

BLOG #11 Henley, Nancy. “This New Species that Seeks a New Language: On Sexism in Language and Language Change.”

I think language is influenced by social hiarchy and dominance. The article makes a good point about how men are always referenced before women. I think this has a lot to do with how the world is and how it works. It is a male dominated world, this can be applied to almost every species on earth therefore speech, actions, and behavior will reflect that. I also think everything has its particular role such as men being the hunters and protectors and women being the nurturers. Since the roles that men are associated with are usually viewed as more important, I think this is why when we reference something we always put men before women.