Quantcast
Channel: Language and gender – Arnold Zwicky's Blog
Browsing all 102 articles
Browse latest View live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

God’s law and man’s law

Frank Bruni in an NYT opinion piece, “Too Much Prayer in Politics: Republicans, the Religious Right and Evolution” on February 15th: Faith and government shouldn’t be as cozy as they are in this...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Sluts

Forwarded to me by Elizabeth Daingerfield Zwicky, this posting on tumblr, with: She: What’s the boy word for slut? He: hey still haven’t come up with one yet. But I’m sure they’re working on it. The...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Mansplaining in the comics

Today’s Dilbert has Alice exploding at the mansplainers in her department: The pointy-headed boss can’t help mansplaining mansplaining. On this blog, mansplaining and straightsplaining on 9/20/14....

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Magnum

Just went past me on television: an ad for Magnum Ice Cream Bars: (#1) (from the Magnum Ice Cream site; “Magnum Ice Cream Bars are made with creamy Ice Cream and Belgian Chocolate”). The bars are big...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

fellow sisters

In the NYT Sunday Review 5/3/15, in “What Black Moms Know” by Yvonda Gault Caviness: Thankfully, I am a black mom. Like many of my fellow sisters, I don’t have time for all that foolishness [about...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Like a rock

Yesterday’s Dinosaur Comics, on remembering names: (#1) The feminine counterpart to the name Peter is Petra, both ultimately from Greek πέτρος (petros) ‘stone, rock’, but there are also women called...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

blond(e)

A while back, a friend complained about people who referred to a man as a blonde: blonde is a French word, my friend said, and in French it can be used only for women. So He’s a blonde is a vulgar...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Androids on the march

Sexy Friday continues, with the war between the sexes in today’s Scenes From a Multiverse: First, misogynoids launched against the women, then misandroids launched in retaliation, sowing the...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Two books

From the NYT Book Review of last Sunday (May 10th), bits from two reviews that caught my eye: Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts reviewed by Jennifer Szalai; and Speak Now by Kenji Yoshino (a memoir...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

LFL

You can pick up a lot of random information in popular genres, like detective fiction and police procedural television shows. Murder mysteries are typically set in some small special world, so that you...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Feminist pirates and their chanteys

A recent Key and Peele segment has pirates singing chanteys.”Pirates trade swashbuckling stories about how they’ve treated the women in their lives.” No, it’s not what you think. (Hat tip to Gregory...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Zippy and the Icon at the Bluebonnet

Today’s Zippy, which leads in several directions: (#1) Zippy at the Bluebonnet Diner in Northampton MA, trading warning signs at the counter with an icon representing a (generic) person. Stuff here:...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Double standard

In today’s Dilbert, Alice complains about a sexual double standard on language use, with women held to a stricter standard than men: Alice refers to, and rejects, two expectations of women: that they...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Geoffrey Nauffts

On Law & Order: Criminal Intent on cable this morning, an episode with a very familiar face that I couldn’t put a name to. The man turned out to be named Geoffrey Nauffts, but I still couldn’t...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

cowboy up!

Recently run across by accident, a reference to a Kindle “book” (apparently a self-published manuscript) entitled “How to cowboy up and stop being such a pussy” by “Max Powerz”. The author’s...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

X queen

I’ll be posting mostly about a family of snowclonelet composites of the form X queen, in which the queen component is a word going back to Old English, with the meaning ‘woman, wife’, though a lot of...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Two Dilberts

From the 8th, featuring Alice:   (#1) and from the 20th, featuring Wally and the pointy-haired boss:   (#2) On #1, note that “good communication skills” involve both the way you speak and use your body...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Misogynistic urinals and sinks

(This posting is packed with pretty direct talk about bodies (women’s and men’s) and sexual practices (mostly, but not entirely, straight, and some kinky). While NSFW, the images are technically not...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Five from Barsotti

It started with a cartoon by New Yorker cartoonist Charles Barsotti (from 1/18/10) in my doctor’s examining room yesterday: (#1) Angry doctor upbraids a smugly smiling patient (hugely obese, cocktail...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Sara and D’ijon double-team Jeremy

The Zits from the 21st takes up a recurrent theme in the strip: Over the years, Mark Liberman and I have posted about the Chatty Girls trope on the strip, retailing the (basically false) stereotype...

View Article
Browsing all 102 articles
Browse latest View live