This chapter focuses on ‘female’ and ‘male’ speech genres and cults, and their representations in linguistic practices. Social Genders in traditional societies tend to be associated with different domains, and different speech styles. This is where inequality between the male and the female Social Genders comes to light. Special languages and language registers can come to be used in male-only rituals. A whole set of terms may be forbidden to women. Women may have to exercise special caution and use deferential forms to address their relatives through marriage. Women are often seen as keepers and promoters of prestigious linguistic norms, and of traditional language. Or they can be viewed as a dangerous ‘other’ who lead the society in the wrong direction.