Medium | 08.10.2026 23:32
“androcentrism” is a term used to describe a worldview or system that treats men and male experiences as the default, central, or more important standard. It shows up often and we often don’t notice it because it’s so ingrained in our society, also because it’s so normalized and pointing it out feels ridiculous. let’s take a look on how it affects languages for example, historically (and still is) “he” was sometimes used to refer to a person of any gender in languages such as English, French, Spanish, and German, in English historically it was like this “every person should eat his breakfast”
