【Abstract】With qualitative and comparison methods， this study aims to make a comparison of metaphors between Chinese and English to reveal the common cognitive causes of linguistic sexism， help language users aware of these discriminatory expressions.
　　【Key words】linguistic sexism； metaphor； comparison
　　【作者简介】陆艳，南通大学外国语学院。

I. Introduction

　　As a sort of cultural medium， Linguistic sexism naturally reflects the thoughts and opinions of human beings as well as their social values. Cognitive linguistics provides new approaches for this subject because the inner mechanism directly affects the formation of their language. Based on the Conceptual Metaphor Theory （Lakoff