Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

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Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

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idle vagrant, sturdy beggar, one of the vagabond class," a word of shadowy origin, perhaps a shortened form of roger (with a hard -g-), thieves' slang for a begging vagabond who pretends to be a poor scholar from Oxford or Cambridge, which is perhaps an agent noun in English from Latin rogare"to ask." Another theory [Klein] traces it to Celtic (compare Breton rog"haughty"); OED says, "There is no evidence of connexion with F. rogue'arrogant'" (the theory supported in Century Dictionary). McDavitt, Bryce; Mutchler, Matt G (2014). " 'Dude, you're such a slut!' Barriers and facilitators of sexual communication among young gay men and their best friends". Journal of Adolescent Research. 29 (4): 464–498. doi: 10.1177/0743558414528974. PMC 4239541. PMID 25419044.

To sum things up, over the first two decades of the twenty-first century, women began speaking with increasingly lower-pitched voices, attempting to convey more dominance and expressing more boredom--all things that middle-aged men have historically not been in favor of women doing." I enjoyed every second of this book and had a problem putting down the audiobook. It was both thought-provoking and entertaining. I love that the author included a lot of historical contexts to words and their meanings. a b Flood, Michael (2013). "Male and Female Sluts". Australian Feminist Studies. 28 (75): 95–107. doi: 10.1080/08164649.2012.758024. S2CID 54991899. Archived from the original on 6 July 2017 . Retrieved 10 August 2018– via Taylor & Francis Online. I stress to even write a review for fear of disappointing the recommender (a word??) of this book— one of my most beloved friends and esteemed colleagues, Sydney Arvanitas. However, I must be true to myself!!!It's very internet white feminism. If you can tolerate "folks" as a synonym for people and "dudes" or "bros" for men all the way through the text, or sentences like "You may or may not have heard of a little thing called the patriarchy", you're less irritable than me. Admittedly, this is highly likely. More materially there's no bibliography, no sources, don't get me started on the tiresome claims about languages with grammatical gender, and it's full of unproven assertions (eg a random sentence tells us that prehistoric humans were happily polygamous and female sexuality was then considered "totally normal and great". That's based on what? Feminist linguist Amanda Montell explains why words matter and why it’s imperative that women embrace their unique relationship with language. Drawing on fascinating research, and moving between history and pop culture, Montell deconstructs language – from insults and cursing to grammar and pronunciation – to expose the ways it has been used for centuries to gaslight women. Montell’s irresistible intelligence and humour make linguistics not only approachable but downright enthralling. I had no real idea what this book was about, I’d seen it briefly mentioned once before by a mutual on TikTok so when I saw it available on audiobook in my library - I snatched it up. The title of this book alone grabbed my attention, to be honest I didn’t need to know anything else about it before I jumped straight in. And what an immaculately chosen jump that was. Shakespeare, William. As You Like It (III, iii, 1531–1537). "[Audrey:] Well, I am not fair; and therefore I pray the gods make me / honest. / [Touchstone:] Truly, and to cast away honesty upon a foul slut were / to put good meat into an unclean dish. / [Audrey:] I am not a slut, though I thank the gods I am foul. / [Touchstone:] Well, praised be the gods for thy foulness; / sluttishness may come hereafter...."

When I tell you that this was one of the most mind blowing and interesting books I have read in a long time, I’m not even exaggerating. I could not stop regurgitating information I learned from this book to everyone around me while I was reading it - I was just so fascinated by what I was learning.

A brash, enlightening, and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the way it shapes us. Tanenbaum, Leora (2 February 2015). "A Brief History Of 'Slut' ". HuffPost . Retrieved 17 January 2020.

so well done - well researched, well written. This was thought provoking, educational, and entertaining. Everyone should read this book. The specific sense of "woman who enjoys sex in a degree considered shamefully excessive" is by 1966. I get so jazzed about the future of feminism knowing that Amanda Montell’s brilliance is rising up and about to explode worldwide.” — Joey Soloway Leora Tanenbaum, for one, thinks that’s a bad idea. The author of I Am NOT a Slut: Slut Shaming in the Age of the Internet, she recently said in an interview with The Daily Beast, “I’m not trying to censor language. But at the same time I’m concerned. I look around campus and every single day we have a new report of an act of sexual assault on a college campus, and that gives me pause. The fact is that most people don’t use words like ‘slut’ and ‘ho’ the way we in the feminist in-group use it. So I’m asking people to think about what these words mean and how they can be used to shame other people.”I’m sure a lot of people would agree that we live in strange times. But do they have to be so strange that Area 51 is making headlines? And what’s this about fish the look like aliens. September’s Words in the News explain all.



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