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butchratchettruther · 1 year ago

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Studying language and gender is so embarassing on the behalf of linguistics. It’ll be like in the 1970s this researcher concluded that women’s speech is inherently inferior and that they don’t actually think when speaking. His research is based on post cards and his own experience. He wrote a book on it and everyone believed it.

#I WISH I was joking #See: Robin Lakoff's dominance theory which is based on the very reliable source of her own observations going through life #aka THERE WAS NO RESEARCH #and then she wrote an entire book. Called language and the woman's place because of course it was #And THEN there's Otto Jesperson #who argued that women thought less about their speech as they used more fillers #and HIS research was based on LITERATURE AND TRAVELLERS.#A VERY reliable source (it is fucking not)#All of this has been disproved btw #Shoutout to Onnela and Deborah Cameron tho #both of whom proved that men and women's speech is largely the same and. get this.#They did ACTUAL RESEARCH on it #ik ik #Cameron's book is called the myth of mars and venus it might be a good read

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