Appendix D: Tables of Survey Results

Person

Question 1: What did you think filling out the survey

Question 2&3: Do you believe there is gendered language? What makes something gendered or neutral?

Alicia: 18, frosh, 2^nd semester, female neutral

Didn't remember

Yes: Feminine language is "more sensitive sounding"

Sam, 18, frosh, 2^nd semester, male varied

Spends time in chat rooms. Used to figuring out who is who

Yes, there are things a girl would say. "When we think of masculine we think of more aggressive"

Luglar: 19, frosh, 2nd semester, Female Neutral

Thought the statements "kinda crazy" and wondered why they were say it

Yeah, M is more "mean loud, say it as it is, don't care what people think, girls shy, "say things in a nice way," "kinda"

N "just general stuff anyone would say"

Rick, 19, frosh, 2^nd semester, male varied

Not really

Yes: "words used something girls would say that guys just wouldn't" vulgar words used by guys women more sensitive

Sarah, 19, frosh, 2^nd semester, female neutral

Think of people who would say it

"yeah to a point. Most would pretty much come from anyone" females say things now they wouldn't have a while ago would think of said to who

Veronica, 18, frosh, 2^nd semester, female, varied

things people would say

Yes, focuses on audience female cutesy, sweet, sugar-coated. Males hard-line, get to point. N a combination of both or neither, subject like current events

Zach, 20, soph, male neutral

Tried to decipher if male or female

To a certain extent, males say profanity & macho things, females more sensitive, "stereotypically romantic" but there are tomboys and romantic men, depends on how raised

Renée, 19, soph (by hours), 2^nd semester, female varied

Survey a neat idea

Some depend on tone of voice, subject related (M sports, F shopping). areas of general interest, everyday conversation N. rudeness male, women can now say more M language, but still lines

Person

Question 4: Survey "before I break my foot off up ion your @**"

Question 5: Survey

It [the love] left when you started talking

Question 6: Survey: "… economic implications that marketing has on today's society"

Question 7: Survey: "I'm sorry they are being mean"

Alicia: 18, frosh, 2^nd semester, female neutral

N: more M than F but "way too many girls talk like that"

N: know people who would say it

N: "as neutral as you can get"

N: general statement

Sam, 18, frosh, 2^nd semester, male varied

M: "more aggressive type statement" think of a guy

M: don't remember now but would mark F now because "it seems like a passive phrase"

F: " intelligents type of statement" could've been N could see M as saying

F: not many guys apologize

Luglar: 19, frosh, 2nd semester, Female Neutral

M: girls don't really say cuss words or fight, guys cuss more

M: guys don't talk about/say love, but girls would have said love

N: either one would say

F: girls concerned about who people feel, guys are like "whatever" don't' care

Rick, 19, frosh, 2^nd semester, male varied

M: because of cuss word "girls don't swear or I don't think they do"

F: doesn't sound like something a guy would say

N: sounds like an educated person

F: guys don't say such things, they would laugh and be mean

Sarah, 19, frosh, 2^nd semester, female neutral

N: heard both saying it, she would

N: hear both ways

N: used to be male, but now both, business

N: her friends would say, sympathetic, anyone who is nice would say

Veronica, 18, frosh, 2^nd semester, female, varied

N: she's say and males and females have said, anger based

M, now F sarcastic

N: something both males and females enjoy, she's done it

F: tend to apologize more, admit when wrong and say sorry for things they didn't do. Guys "don't say it'

Zach, 20, soph, male neutral

M: profanity, friends would say

F: sounds like Jerry McGuire movie, something a woman would say

N: both men and women say

N

Renée, 19, soph (by hours), 2^nd semester, female varied

M: girls don't cuss, general occurrence for males

F: line she used, blow off guy and being tacky, sounds like a reply t a pickup line

N: political general topic for both

F: women always apologize for something and want to help

Person

Question 8: Survey: "i'm happy with who i am"

Question 9:Survey "BE NICE"

Question 10: Survey "wow, it was difficult to contain myself"

Question 11: Survey "you sound like a little kid"

Alicia: 18, frosh, 2^nd semester, female neutral

N: but now see as more F, can see both saying it

N: can see anyone saying it

N

N: "pretty neutral"

Sam, 18, frosh, 2^nd semester, male varied

F: guys not usually say they're happy, more aggressive, can't picture a guy saying

F: didn't see a guy saying they'd say "chill" or "cut it out"

F: sarcastic response to being hit on

F: bunch of girls saying it

Luglar: 19, frosh, 2nd semester, Female Neutral

N: anyone could say but more girls would say how they feel

F: guys must be saying bad things and girls telling them to be nice an talk in a nicer way

M: "Being smart about it", smartalec

F: correcting behavior, making people act right, guys don't say that

Rick, 19, frosh, 2^nd semester, male varied

N

F: never hear guys say, especially with emphasis

F: because girls contain themselves better than guys

F: what a girl would tell a guy, correction

Sarah, 19, frosh, 2^nd semester, female neutral

N: anybody who is confident

N: guy friend would say and she would say

N: context dependant

N: lots of people say, everyone whines

Veronica, 18, frosh, 2^nd semester, female, varied

M: portrayed as stronger and don't have the media images telling them to look certain ways

F: "motherly"

F: she says, could be neutral

N: friends say, anybody could say

Zach, 20, soph, male neutral

N he and girlfriend are both confident

N: he and mom say

N: couldn't decide if male or female

N: mom and dad would say

Renée, 19, soph (by hours), 2^nd semester, female varied

F: now could be both, female more concerned with others but guys can be too

F: women "trying to make everything right"

N: didn't go one way or the other

F: something she says

Person

Question 12: Survey "it's cool when people tell on each other"

Question 13: "Oh sorry Lee you ran into my fist"

Question 14: Did you try to figure out if the speaker/writer was male or female?

Question 15: have your thoughts on gendered language changed?

Alicia: 18, frosh, 2^nd semester, female neutral

N

Called Male not M "Sounds like they were fighting"

"Yes basically"

If saw as male marked as M

Not really

Sam, 18, frosh, 2^nd semester, male varied

N: see guy or girl saying it

M: more aggressive, didn't see a girl saying it or being physical

Yes, saw the person as male or female

Same

Luglar: 19, frosh, 2nd semester, Female Neutral

N: changed to M don't care if they tell girls would be nice about it

M: guys fight and argue more

Did think female for F and male for M

Not really change

Rick, 19, frosh, 2^nd semester, male varied

N: either could say, sounds like a younger person's comment

M: sounds like a guy "talking trash" not too many girls say

Yes, looked for keywords that were M or female, would think of friends

Did see M and F as being different from male and female but didn't differentiate on this

No, same

Sarah, 19, frosh, 2^nd semester, female neutral

N: sounds young like 10^th graders

N

Thought if could see guy or woman

nope

Veronica, 18, frosh, 2^nd semester, female, varied

N: males and females say, not aimed at either

M: fighting, no female would say, more a guy thing

If it was something she and her friend would say N, if she wouldn't or other females say M, females don't say stupid things

Audience based , sexist language happens but not normally on purpose people are trying to make thing neutral, are more aware

Zach, 20, soph, male neutral

N: couldn't decipher, anyone could

M: friends would say

Looked at content words used profanities male, did related to a male or female

Not really wants to believe in equality "male or feminine"

Renée, 19, soph (by hours), 2^nd semester, female vaired

M: stupid thing a guy would say, one of their "crazy little things"

M: guys have "violent tendencies" get into fights more, tacky

Did try to identify who speaker was and how they came across

Re-enforced