Splicetoday

Sex
Jan 29, 2010, 05:31AM

Desexing the Chinese language

Do the Hanzi characters themselves discriminate?

A recent internet post purportedly written by a lawyer named Ye Mantian rallied against the structure of many vulgar Chinese Hanzi characters as containing elements in reference to women. For example, the traditional character for rape is written as “姦”, or simply the three characters “女” [women] stacked together.

Discussion

Register or Login to leave a comment