Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

by Amanda Montell

though gay women were less likely to be arrested pre-LGBTQ+ liberation, it was also extremely hard for them to live independently of men, and that made it more difficult to develop an extensive, widely known lexicon.

if you want to know something about our culture’s mainstream attitudes toward sex—that it is penetrative by definition,

As always, predictions when it comes to the relationship between language and social change are notoriously hard to make.

Native Tongue,

“You can’t have just the linguistic change first and then expect people to get on board with the cultural stuff.”

Misogyny won’t go unopposed but will continue.”

academia and activism are merging, and this can be really powerful.