The crazy thing is this is actually an improvement over what we have now.

Yeah. I’m not a fan of “gals” personally, because to me it sounds like an abbreviated sidestep of “girls” in the same way “shoot” is a sanitized, twee version of “shit”. Everyone knows which word you mean but aren’t quite saying.

This is what I was thinking. Unless it’s part of a painstaking description of each tiny detail of the morning routine, putting on a bra isn’t any more interesting or unusual than putting on underwear or socks. Every woman already knows exactly how it goes and a passing mention of a morning routine is enough. Unless it…

Seconded. If for nothing else, what Lecke does with pronouns is absolutely worth the read.

It could also be Scalzi being Scalzi. He’s pretty well known as being an advocate in general on social media, and I wouldn’t put it past him to have done something like that not only to serve the book but to make a point about gendered writing itself.

I would have to know the person REALLY well to have “chicklette” not sound like an insult if someone used it to me (also because I’d immediately think of Chiclets gum)!

This, all damn day. When I bring this up in non-Jez areas of my life, all I get is “why not just use ‘guys’?” and looks of blank incomprehension.

Yep, or the ones who mansplain that I just can’t possibly understand what “infantile” means, and that “there’s a girl and boy in each of us.”

I realize I’m like, the only person in the world who seems to care about this, but can we talk about how “Girl” is still used ubiquitously to refer to grown women?

Especially since we’re all going to click on it no matter what it says.

Completely agree. If the headline had said “Wonder Woman about to kick...” I wouldn’t have had the same reaction as you did. It’s shoddy headlining.

I noticed that too. I wonder if it falls under the “it’s not out of the theaters yet so we’re certain it’ll make that mark by Tuesday, so we’ll go ahead and call it good” category.

Yaaaaay! Lookit that little arm chub! She’s getting there! I’m so glad to see your updates and that she’s rockin’ the almost-regular-sized diapers already!

NO CAPES!

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Nah, see, these are the unspoken rules.

Fusion drew clearer parallels in their similar article, but it makes for a rather stark juxtaposition with her recently and well promoted book about working women and how they can have it all if they just do Ivanka-approved things, all of which is basically a pack of nice-sounding lies evidently built on the back of…

Can’t blame her. If it were me I’d find a way to put all of my secret service between us and would probably be doing my best to be on the other side of that crowd.

I’ve never heard of this brand before, and after reading the article, have no interest in trying it. Real Ice Cream Wins Out.

The movie is great. But the book is fantastic.