What is Language?? Male Generic Language??

Have you ever thought about how exactly language was made?? What about how you learned language?? Do you think it was all from your family??  I think that we learn everything first and for most from our families at home.  I believe that our families are the number one agents of the socialization process; which means that they are the first agents to instill their/ our soon beliefs upon us.  This in return forces us to think, act, comprehend, speak, and even imagine in a curtain way. In the book it talks about Male Generic Language and how we as a society seem to think “Men are the Standard while Women are the Exception” (118). In the book it brings up an important fact, a fact that was brought up in class on Tuesday when we did the group assignments. My group spoke of this whole theory of women being the exception and really didn’t think twice when we realized just how left out women are. The book brought up examples when dealing with this theory and said that Us as a society use words like Mailman, businessman, spokesman, and even mankind; and it’s just horrible because this belief that goes noticed but miss-understood, diminishes the thought of us women being known as intelligent, strong, successful, impactful, helping, , and unique individuals.  This notion that the book talks about under appreciates women as a whole. I personally feel that if we as a society were brought up in a different way, we would have a different understanding, standard and new focused accomplishment as a whole.  I remember growing up and being raised by such a sexes family and I know that my focus on trying to be so different and unique all at the same attempt in proving everyone wrong shed light on my beliefs that everyone is human, and everyone is equal, and if we all work together this society would be so much more different.