"Women have to appropriate the language of men to get on in the world"
Being female is difficult enough in this world already and now we are being told that we need to change the way we speak to sound more like men, even in 2016. For years we have been mocked and called 'stupid' and 'immature' because of up-talk or conversation fillers 'like'. We use this as a tool, either for a cue or for as an implication. Instead of us being credited for new ways of interacting and communicating we are demeaned for it. But when a man decides to do this it's a complete different story, they are seen as amazing and clever. Maybe men feel so threatened by us actually being able to communicate through means which they cant understand that they decide to criticise us. So why does everyone have something against the way we talk?
But if we do decide to start appropriating the way men speak won't we just be mocked for that also?
