The sexist expressions in the TDK dictionary continue to attract public reaction, especially on social media. The institution, on the other hand, appealed a court decision to remove the slang equivalents of the aforementioned words and suspended the execution.
TDK, in the past years, “available”, “trades”, “deliver”, “free”, “volatile”, “deteriorate”, “to fall on the wrong path”, “fresh”, “way”, “painted”, “dirty” He had rejected applications to have the slang terms associated with women’s words removed from the dictionary.
These words are still requested to be removed, but linguists and communication professionals, thinks that it would be more appropriate to put a warning next to these words instead of removing them. This issue, which has come to the fore again, is reacted with social media campaigns.
In the dictionary, the word “woman” is expressed in an offensive way, while the word “man” is defined with expressions that make her proud.
For men “trustworthy, brave” While using equivalents such as “having the virtues and skills required in terms of maternity or household management” in the definition of woman of the same word, “maid lady” responses are used. This makes women look secondary to men.
In response to this situation, signature campaigns are also organized from time to time.
A child asked, “What is a woman?” when you look online and “lady maid” It is stated that when you see the explanation, it is dangerous because the perception that it is a normal thing will settle.
Experts say that it would be more accurate for TDK to add certain warnings or signs to these words and phrases instead of completely removing the sexist meanings of these words and phrases from dictionaries.
It is stated that removing a word from the dictionary does not mean destroying that word or the mentality behind it. Political communication expert Prof. Dr. Ülkü Doğanay said, “Because those words continue to live in the language. The thing to do is not to remove it from the dictionaryOn the contrary, putting the information that that word is a racist, discriminatory and sexist expression into the dictionary,” Doğanay says, adding that this would be “a much more correct way of struggle”.
TDK later removed the definition of the word “deteriorating” as “Woman, starting to act against the moral rules of society” from the dictionary, but still did not intervene for the following words.
For the word “artisan” in the TDK dictionary “the woman who has gone astray”, for “freestyle” “not dignified, floppy (female)” for “playful” “without manners (woman or girl)” for “wayman” “easily obtained” for “painted” for “highly painted” , with make-up (woman)”, for “to surrender”, for “a woman, to give herself to a man”, “to fall into the wrong path” “to be a bad woman”The definition of “young woman” for “fresh” and “menstruating (woman)” is made for “dirty”.
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