[Corpora-List] gender differences in word knowledge

[Erin McKean]

I know you are just joking, but the original post was about words that 
different genders recognize, not "like".

We should be very careful as scientists not to reinforce gender 
stereotypes, especially such dated and offensive ones as "women are 
gold-diggers".

Of course this was a light-hearted comment, but I believe that "the 
standard you walk by is the standard you accept," and I don't believe 
that "ha ha, women are gold diggers!" jokes should be standard on an 
academic mailing list.

Erin
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Erin McKean
@emckean/@reverb/@wordnik
wordnik.com
helloreverb.com


On 6/21/14, 8:15 AM, Michal Ptaszynski wrote:
> Maybe we should change names of new cosmetics, clothes and jewlery to
> contain such words women dont like - this could save our wallets :)
>
> Michal
>
> Dnia 20-06-2014 o 13:01:07 Jim Fidelholtz <fidelholtz at gmail.com>
> napisa�(a):
>
>> Cze��, Michal,
>>
>> Sure they do. They just know them as emeralds. ;)
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> James L. Fidelholtz
>> Posgrado en Ciencias del Lenguaje
>> Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades
>> Benem�rita Universidad Aut�noma de Puebla, M�XICO
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 5:25 AM, Michal Ptaszynski <
>> michal.ptaszynski at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Fascinating discovery! If someone asked me I would never bet that women
>>> don't like smaragds :)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Michal Ptaszynski
>>>
>>> Dnia 19 cze 2014 o godz. 20:14 "Marc Brysbaert"
>>> <marc.brysbaert at ugent.be>
>>> napisa�(a):
>>>
>>> For those of you who are interested in gender differences in word
>>> knowledge, we have compiled a list of 24 words with the largest
>>> differences
>>> between men and women (12 favoring males and 12 favoring females):
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://zipf.ugent.be/crr.ugent.be/archives/1628
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The data are based on the first 500,000 lists completed of our
>>> vocabulary
>>> test (http://vocabulary.ugent.be/).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Here you find a list of 20 words not known to anyone:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://crr.ugent.be/archives/1621
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> (in case you need some for word learning studies).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Marc Brysbaert
>>>
>>> Department of Experimental Psychology
>>>
>>> Ghent University
>>>
>>> Henri Dunantlaan 2
>>>
>>> B-9000 Gent
>>>
>>> Belgium
>>>
>>> Tel. +32 9 264 94 25
>>>
>>> Fax. +32 9 264 64 96
>>>
>>> E-mal: marc.brysbaert at ugent.be
>>>
>>> Website: http://crr.ugent.be/members/marc-brysbaert
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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