“From now on, I respectfully ask you to refer to me as Jen, Jennifer, Ms. Herold, or your opponent.”
“From now on, I respectfully ask you to refer to me as Jen, Jennifer, Ms. Herold, or your opponent.”
If my words were misplaced.
That Venn Diagram is in fact a circle.
As far as I’m concerned, American exceptionalism lives on primarily in the fact that we’re the only developed…
These are full dentures, I’m sure of it. Or a plate attached to implants, which is basically the same thing.
Want to know the double shot in the stomach. Artie Hammer has bought the life rights of Villareal. In a story sure to have holes poked in it, Hammer was in the same jail on a pot possesion of something like that, and then has been working for years to strong-arm, i mean, acquire the life rights. So there will possibly…
She can do better than that, much better.
I’m so glad that a large number of people are acknowledging that the diversity problem Hollywood has is deeply ingrained in the fundamental structure of the industry. It’s not just about the hiring of actors, it’s the hiring of directors, screenwriters, producers, DPs, editors, sound editors, sound mixers, composers,…
All those examples are perfectly normal usage of the words. But in taken together, they indicate that Oxford is not concerned in any way with presenting language in a way that isn’t sexist and containing negative stereotypes toward half its users. There’s no such thing as perfect neutrality, but/and the choices they…
Also, those words are not solely or even most commonly defined that way. A telephone is shrill. An alarm clock. Intentionally choosing gendered shit to express a non-gendered adjective is irresponsible. Let people learn their bias from their shitty parents, as is tradition.
It’s the dictionary’s job to literally define words. If you don’t know what rabid means and you go to look it up, you will now and forever associate it with feminist. Like if your daughter asks you, “what’s a prick, mummy?” and you say, “well, your father is one”. While that may or may not be accurate, teaching…
Listen to how it sounds as applied to gender neutral terms; “rabid capitalist”, “rabid conservationist”, “rabid christian”; this adjective most certainly carries negative undertones. We’re just so used to having negative stereotypes attached to us we don’t even hear it.
“shrill” – defined as “the rising shrill of women’s voices”– and “psyche” – for which the example sentence is, “I will never really fathom the female psyche”. “Grating”, defined as “sounding harsh and unpleasant”, was illustrated with the phrase “her high, grating voice”, while the adjective “nagging” used the…
Language matters. You’d think the makers of the world’s preeminent English dictionary would know this better than…
And does this (archaic) law have exceptions? Or will breastfeeding mothers be arrested for indecency?
Is it illegal for women to be topless in San Francisco in general or just in this park? And more importantly...why?
As somebody working on the other side of the camera, most people cannot act at all.
Not quite. It’s hard to make a good living as a driver because just about anyone can be trained to do it, making it a buyer’s market for employers.
That’s a pet peeve of mine — people having no sense of what average ability actually is in something like acting. The average person doesn’t have enough talent or skill to meet the standards necessary to get cast in a high school play, but people will sit there and mercilessly trash working actors as if they are…
I fixed a door today. I fixed the fuck out of that door! I’m gonna reward myself with 4 orgasms tonight! Fuck yeah!