judging women

Marked or Unmarked status for both men and women still remains to be an indirect type of cultural norm practiced by different societies . This type of connotation often is a manifestation of collective practices actions , and norms promoted by a certain society . This is one of the facets that separate us from every other specie in the world - our ability to create meanings out of something

With this , one can clearly just say that there could be no such thing as an unmarked woman . But , for it to hold ground there must be

br sufficient explanations and arguments that would justify the particular claim . It is thus important for an elaboration the difficulty of creating an unmarked woman

The first important thing is to establish the real meaning of the concept . One can see that the real debate concerns again the inequality of achieving a marked or unmarked status between male and female . Tannen argues in the article that marked refers to the way language alters the base meaning of a word by adding a linguistic particle that has no meaning on its own (p .1 . On one hand we see again the way man has created meaning over symbols to the extent of even creating one over nothingness

This argument goes to show that only men are subject to be unmarked Tannen mentions that the unmarked forms of most English words also convey male (p .1 . Seeing such definition , there is a sexual distinction to people who are unmarked (male ) and those who are marked (female . Though there seems to be no problem with such sexual distinction , problems often arises when different interpretations go into the picture

Tannen points out several important characteristics on as to why such distinctions became so eminent among women . The tendency of women to be criticized for their every action subjects them to the notion that they are indeed marked . Tannen elaborates this claim by pursuing the way people perceive women 's hairstyle . According to (Tannen ) the range of women 's hair styles are staggering , but women whose hair has no particular style is perceived as not caring about how she looks , which can disqualify her for many positions , and will subtly diminish her as a person in the eyes of some (p .1

Such example only proves one thing for women it is indeed difficult for women to be unmarked since the continuous knots are in place for marked perceptions , actions , and ideas . It is like a continued cycle of being `marked ' and curtailed with only several moves that will also still connote the same thing - being `marked . This is one argument as to why women cannot be considered or classified as unmarked

However , thinkers who see such scenario often attest and complain about the particular setup of things . Though it may be wrong to associate them to feminist , but somehow these people are often pointed toward such orientation due to its overall principle - equality for both men and women . It is through this...