Jean Oram’s Reviews > Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language > Status Update

“As Debra Cameron once said, “Teaching young women to accommodate to the linguistic preferences, aka prejudices, of the men who run law firms and engineering companies is doing the patriarchy’s work for it.” It accepts the idea that “feminine“ speech is a problem, rather than the sexist attitudes toward it.”

“…criticisms of women's voices…they speak with too much vocal fry, overuse the words like and literally, and apologize in excess. …pseudo-feminist advice aimed at helping women talk with "more authority" so they can be "taken more seriously." … keeping women in a state of self-questioning-keeping them quiet—for no objectively logical reason other than that they don't sound like middle-aged white men.”