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There are many diverse influences on the way that English is used across the world today. We look at some of the ways in which the language is changing. Read our series of blogs to find out more. Slutty Skanks and Nasty Dykes: A Comprehensive List of Gendered Insults I Hate (but Also Kind of Love?) the feminist theory here was... surprisingly third wave for a book published squarely during the midst of 4th wave feminism. the discussion rarely talks about the intersection of identities when evaluating word chloice, and broadly prescribed behaviors for all women which just seems too naive at best and ignorant and arrogant at worst. The selection of examples (ex, for choosing famous modern women leaders, the author selected only white women war criminals(or dubiously close to war crimes; margaret thatcher, Hilary Clinton what a #girlboss move there)) further reiterated what seemed like a criminally unaware perspective on modern feminism from the author. As a queer person, the chapter on gay voice and lesbian history was particularly difficult to read. the author presents a quote that there was no lesbian culture pre sexual revolution bc it was hard for lesbians to exist, when any queer historian knows this is provably untrue. Finally, the constant quips about wanting a men free world were crimgey at best. I truly do not understand how you can be aware of the gender spectrum and still make comments about hating all men when gender is so complicated you have to put 400 qualifiers on the type of man (cis/straight/abled) and it should really serve to show you hate types of behaviors/toxic masculinity and not just men. Finally, as with all "pop science" literature in my experience, there were a plethora of conclusions drawn and generalizations made without evidence or cause.
a b Reger, Jo (2015). "The Story of a Slut Walk: Sexuality, Race, and Generational Divisions in Contemporary Feminist Activism". Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 44 (1): 84–112. doi: 10.1177/0891241614526434. One of our culture’s least helpful pieces of advice is that women need to change the way they speak to sound less “like women” (or that queer people need to sound straighter, or that people of color need to sound whiter). The way any of these folks talk isn’t inherently more or less worthy of respect. It only sounds that way because it reflects an underlying assumption about who holds more power in our culture.” There is also an incredibly embarrassing passage in which she and her brother agree that when they say "How are you?" and the reply is, "I'm well," rather than "I'm good", that's a "common grammatical infraction" that makes them "reflexively cringe". This is because it's a case of hypercorrection, she asserts without explanation. It has to be unexplained because it's wrong: the Montells are mistaking 'well' in "I'm well" for the adverb 'well' (he cooks well), whereas it's obviously the adjective 'well' meaning 'in good health' (he was unwell for a while but now he's well again). "Everyone loves that gotcha feeling that comes with catching someone in a grammar violation, especially when you know the speaker was trying to sound smart," she writes proudly. Ooof. 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.Collocations are words that are often used together and are brilliant at providing natural sounding language for your speech and writing. At its heart, this work reflects a tenet of sociolinguistic study: language is not divorced from culture; it both reflects and creates beliefs about identity and power. Modern stylings situated within foundational research will hopefully bring a new audience to the field of language and gender studies.”
Nathanson, Rebecca (2 October 2011). "SlutWalk Rally Against Sexual Violence Draws Huge Crowd of Feminists". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on 4 May 2012. 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. The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue. The Canterbury Tales. Geoffrey Chaucer. 1894. The Complete Poetical Works". www.bartleby.com . Retrieved 17 January 2020.
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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. It's generally pretty well known that if you identify a sound change in progress, then young people will be leading old people, and women tend to be maybe half a generation ahead of males," Liberman says.
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