Sublime

So the words we use don’t only reflect who we are, they actively create who we are.

Ultimately, language can serve as a rather blatant means of otherizing all things feminine.

Young women use the linguistic features that they do, not as mindless affectations, but as power tools for establishing and strengthening relationships.

If magazines were containers for taste, the creators of the creator economy are vessels.

If magazines were containers for taste, the creators of the creator economy are vessels.

coda

people have the genders that they do because of the way they talk and the feedback they receive from that talk. Language brings gender to life.

sparkle sarcasm

She came up with a theory called gender performativity, which essentially says that gender isn’t something you are, it’s something you do.