This project looks at the gendered stereotypes that are projected on to males and females in the United States and how these stereotypes affect our language and speech. Students at Colorado College participated in a series of activities, free-listing and pile-sorting, to gather data on the association of everyday terms to masculinity and femininity. A common trend that appeared among the participants was the acknowledgement of gendered terms and the discomfort that came with this acknowledgement. This trend supports the gendered language that has been created within American society and the idea of toughness vs. passiveness in males and females respectively.