Just don’t do it

I don’t usually reblog articles, and LEX wasn’t built as a sociolinguistic platform. Well, not in the realm of gender politics and language, anyhow.

But I’m reblogging this because it’s *language about language.* Debbie Cameron is a language scientist who does the nitty gritty work of peeling apart *what gets said* about language, and then looks at whether it reflects the evidence.

So often, it does not.

1 Comment

  1. kristinlems says:

    I wonder if the great flood of successful writers who are women is in part a kind of global “workaround” to bypass the bias against women’s speaking voices. When you write, no one knows how you speak – or what you wear, or how you look! In that way, it’s very empowering.

    Of course, writing under a woman’s name can still be considered a liability, which probably pushed Rowling into using “J.K.,” decades after George Sand…

    interesting and thought provoking, thank you!

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