Mare bite

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Mare bite is a German expression that casually denotes the behavior of women as actors in open conflicts with the help of an animal metaphor . It is a gender stereotype . This describes a sensitive, aggressively controversial and heated behavior towards other women who are perceived as possible competition. This can be done directly against the person or indirectly behind their back. The idiom refers to conflicts of rank among mares within a herd.

Animal metaphor as a female gender role stereotype

Bite gurre, bite gurn

Since the 16th century which is derogatory to women -related animal metaphor of conflict behavior occupied by mares. The word Bissgurre is a compound of bite and the basic word gurre (mhd. For old mare ). In some areas, especially in southern Germany and Austria, the expression Bissgurn (also Bissgurrn ) has been preserved as a disparaging term for a quarrelsome, tyrannical, often older woman. The expression was translated into standard German as Bissgurke (n) .

“Mare bite”: Current usage and background

The term “mare bite” has become increasingly widespread since the mid-1990s. In contemporary language, the animal metaphor is used as a female gender role stereotype - especially at work. Based on the conflict behavior of mares , the term describes intra- gender competitive behavior or rivalry between women, whereby the conflict behavior of men is hidden as a reference variable, i.e. H. as a social norm . This devaluation is subliminally associated with socially undesirable behaviors such as jealousy or envy .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b stutenbissig duden.de
  2. ↑ Kluge, Etymological Dictionary of the German Language , de Gruyter, 1995
  3. ^ So in the quoted dictionaries for Franconian and Bavarian. See also Lexer Mhd.Handwörterbuch
  4. ↑ Bissgurn duden.de
  5. ↑ Bavaria: "Bavarian Dictionary" by Andreas Schmeller, Munich 1872, there under Gurre ; Franconia: Concise dictionary of Bavarian Franconia, 2nd edition, Bamberg 2007.
  6. ↑ Google Books Ngram Viewer: Mare Bite
  7. ↑ For example: Hanna Dietz: Weiberwahnsinn: shoe tick, handbag compulsion, overactive tear glands and other peculiarities of the woman species. Berlin 2013.
  8. ↑ For example: Karin Bodewits, Andrea Hauk, Philipp Gramlich: Career guide for natural scientists: Successful in professional life. Weinheim 2015.
  9. ↑ Cf. Mechtild Erpenbeck : "Stutenbissig" ?! In: Wirtschaftspsychologie aktuell , 2004 (1), pp. 20–25. (see literature; freely available online as PDF ; PDF file; 113 kB; accessed: July 12, 2009).
  10. ↑ Cf. Romy Fröhlich et al. a .: Public Relations. Data and facts from gender-specific occupational research . Oldenbourg, 2005, pp. 187 ff., 199, 201, 219, 246, 251. (see literature; excerpts freely available online from Google Book Search ).