Karky’s Reviews > Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language > Status Update
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"Linguists postulate this would also be the case in any language spoken under a patriarchal system since language ultimately reflects the beliefs and power structures of its culture. In English, our negative terms for women, which usually carry sexual conn, necessarily mirror the status of women in western society at large. That being the status us fillets and treats at best, and hobags and hell pigs at worse." 2/2
— Aug 13, 2023 01:07PM
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I love her argument against using "penetrate" in sex and how it centers the male experience. That she asks you to imagine if the default was a word like "envelop" thus centering the female experience, and how that may emphasize the female orgasm to be seen as the expected conclusion since women are no longer linguistically subjected to the passive role.
— Aug 13, 2023 01:11PM
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Negative slang for women from a UCLA survey fell into 4 categories: sexual promiscuity, fatness, evilness, & level of hotness. Another UCLA survey of gendered insults found approximately 90% slang for women were negative, compared to only 46% for men. Positive terms for women also tend to be sex themed, and often compared women to food, like peach. 1/2
— Aug 13, 2023 01:07PM
