I recently made a video about how misogyny is reflected in our language, and somebody asked for a follow up post about how we can shift our language. The main thing with any behavior is you can’t shift anyone but yourself. What we can do is model it and set boundaries around how people are […]
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‘Little Lady’ is not the corresponding nickname for ‘Little Man’.
I made a video about how we call boy babies ‘Little Man’, but we never call girl babies, ‘Little Woman’. I got a lot of responses that we say, ‘Little Lady, and so it’s the same. I would submit that it is not the same, because male is something assigned at birth, and then man […]