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Guruzilla's /var/log/knowledge-junkie ["the chatter of a missionary sysadmin"] 2003-08-14 12:06 AM gendered agent? Previous Entry :: Next Entry Mood: Tired |
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{ Now playing: (air conditioning) Recent movies: Lain, Disc 2****; Farscape, II.2****; Lain, Disc 3/4?****; Evangelion 12-15****; Recent books: Joshua; Colossians; Schlatter, The Theology of the Apostles; John R. E. Bliese, The Greening of Conservative America; Shusaku Endo, Silence; Norton selections from Spenser, The Faerie Queene; excerpts from The Mystical Poetry of Rumi (trans. Arberry); } Query: what is relationship between rise of "active" voice and gendered agents? Why is 'he said / she said' preferable to "it is apparent"? Is the cult of so-called "active" voice over "passive" voice itself and artifact of engendering language unnecessarily? If discriminating between gender is so bad, why replace the gender-ignorant passive? There's probably a political strategy in it somewhere, but it seems to flow from insane motives, if not impure. |
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