Groups who are marginalized by the dominate because they do not speak the same language and do not have power. Experiences are discounted because they do not fit the dominant

1. Keeping People Quiet

2. Social Anthropologists, 1975

3. The dominant people determine the communication
system for the culture.
People on the lower end of the class spectrum have to
learn to communication with in the parameters of the
dominant.
Example: Women have to contend with the difficulties
of a language that does not completely give voice to
their thoughts, but their experiences are represented
through a male perspective
Creates bias in research.

4. Thus, she explains that women or members of any
subordinate group, do speak, but their words fall on
deaf ears. And when this happens over time, they tend
to stop trying to articulate their thoughts and they may
even stop thinking them.

5. Reproductive rights
Pro-choice
Actor (men or women)
Glass ceiling
Heteronormative
Transgender
Women’s space

6. Developed by male clerics and academics
Women silenced by male dominated language
Dr. Byrd Disagrees

7. Women Homeless
Children Single parents
Elderly Men can be
silenced
Disabled People of colour
Queer
Poor

8. Women perceive the world differently than men because women; and
men’s different experience and activities are rooted in the division of
labor
Men’ system of perception is dominant, impeding the free
expressions of women’s alternative models of the world.
In order to participate women must translate their experience into the
male dominant language

9. Division of Labor
Home and work public and private sphere
Gender polarization
Descriptions of male and females
babies
Nonverbal when holding babies
Men and women perceive different things when talking
about importance

10. Men are in charge of naming and labeling social life
Men don’t create ways for women to talk about their
experiences (they can’t because they don’t have the
experiences)
White don’t create language for people of colour
Heterosexuals don’t create works to describe the
experiences of gays
Unresponsiveness to language.

11. Harassment, lack of access to the media, failure to acknowledge
Ridicule, isolation, bullying

12. Name the ways we are silenced
Celebrate the discourse in communities
Reduction of gender biased language

13. Can you describe them and name them
Here’s one from race, people following a person of
colour around the store
Driving while brown