Tag Archives: Language
FBI to vote on changing archaic rape definition (Updated)
TweetExciting news! Word around town is that the FBI is considering changing their terribly outdated definition of rape, with a key vote on the the term scheduled during an FBI subcommittee meeting tomorrow. You’ll remember that the FBI currently defines rape as “the carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will”, which, as [...]
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Obama Racism Watch: GOP Rep says associating with him is like touching a “tar baby”
TweetThe latest dispatch from a post-racial society. Via Think Progress: Appearing on the Caplis and Silverman radio show last Friday, Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO) said, “Now I don’t even want to have to be associated with [Obama], it’s like touching a tar baby and you’re stuck, you’re part of the problem now. You can’t get [...]
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Overheard in the men’s room
Tweet“So, I was just in the men’s room, and I overheard a conversation that made me think of you.” When you’re a feminist blogger, a lot of conversations with your friends begin this way. In this case, my friend Charles was right: the conversation he had overheard did interest me. We were at a wedding [...]
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What google teaches us about our views on the sexes
TweetChris Harrison, a Ph.D. student in Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon, created an infographic of how “he” and “she” are used in Google’s digital books archive, which contains 200 years worth of published material. The graph shows the 120 most common words used after “he” and “she,” ordered in decreasing frequency. When I asked Harrison [...]
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