m Personalities of the Italian public sphere, from politicians to writers, have launched a campaign, which they want to force the Italian dictionary to change the definition of the word woman. In the dictionary, it states, among other things, 30 marks for a sex worker and various murders for a girl. This exacerbates the problem of sexism in society, with the initiative in a letter published in La Repubblica.
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According to about a hundred significant signs of the password, a woman should not use synonyms with a negative connotation, especially if the word has positive words. Among other things, puttana (dvka), cagna (ubka) and zoccola (whore) are now found among women. The password contains all positive synonyms, such as uomo daffari (entrepreneur) and uomo dingegno (gnius).
Such murders are not only insulting, but reinforce negative and misogynistic stereotypes, which state the situation on the level of things and show them as inferior beings, which are written in the letter.
The Treccani dictionary has not yet come out. Under the slogan ena is a bag written that some of the murders rub off the language emerging in a culture that has been dominated by mui for centuries.
The vocabulary of the verbal part is not chosen on the basis of moral judgment and prejudice. If society and culture express negativity through words, the dictionary cannot refuse to record them, the publisher of the dictionary wrote in November last year, according to the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
These words prost are not synonyms with the word ena. Activist Maria Beatrice Giovanardiov, who is behind the campaign and believes in a similar petition against the prestigious English Oxford Dictionary, may be certain synonyms for the word sex worker, but not a woman. He also mentioned synonyms such as ubka and koka in the word ena.
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Finding a definition of anything positive is really difficult, it’s very outdated, says Giovanardi to the Treccani dictionary.
Giovanardiov hopes that the letter, which was signed by the former Speaker of the Italian Chamber of Deputies Laura Boldriniov and the writer Michela Murgiaov, will spark a public debate on sexism in a southern European country.
Sexism is an everyday affair. And dictionaries are primarily an educational tool, adds an activist.
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