Male oriented là gì
Hello everyone.
Do you mean 'male' or 'mail'? You give both.
It would help if you could give us a sentence containing the expression, and outline what you don't understand about it. We could then offer better considered suggestions as to what it might mean.
I'm reading am aritcle about the English vocabulary development over the years and there's a chapter called "linguistic sexism" which says "...this can be seen in the still prevailing of male-oriented expressions such as postman and businessman..."
It means they focus on men, not men and women. The word postman for a letter carrier, fireman for a firefighter, policeman for police officer, and so on, go back to an era where women were not accepted in those occupation. The author says that people still use those terms. (I don't, but people who post on WRF are more sensitive than average to questions of language. I'm willing to believe that some people do.) (mainly British male-orientated) Biased toward, dominated by, or designed for men. male, manly, manlike, of men, man's, men's, male-oriented |