[单项选择]Feminist sociolinguists (社会语言学家), over the course of the last few decades, have conducted studies that they believe and support the conclusion that women are routinely discriminated against in English-speaking society. They point to the words used to describe women, as well as the words used to describe society as a whole, as indications that the English language, and therefore the English-speaking culture, is slanted towards the advantage of males.
The words used to describe women are used as instrument by feminist sociolinguists to denote an inherent sexism in the English language. Word pairs such as master and mistress and sir and madam, they claim, epitomize such sexism. All of the words in question once held positive connotations but, while the masculine (男性的) forms have retained their respectable associations, the feminine forms have undergone pejoration and now imply sexual promiscuity (混杂) and other negative characteristics. Feminist researchers assume that such pejoration
A. demonstrate the superiority of males in English-speaking society
B. provide an example of speech that is slanted towards the advantage of males
C. list the characteristics of the feminist sociolinguist movement
D. discount the notion that the English language discriminates against women