prochoicecanadian:vaspider:huffingtonpost:One Woman’s Reaction To Every ‘White Man’s Sentence’That’s
prochoicecanadian:vaspider:huffingtonpost:One Woman’s Reaction To Every ‘White Man’s Sentence’That’s how Melissa Lozada-Oliva begins her powerful spoken word poem “Like Totally Whatever” that she performed at the 2015 National Poetry Slam earlier this month. Lozada-Oliva details the subtle sexism engrained in the critiques of how women speak. Watch the full poem here.YESSSSSSSSSSSSS Yes YES yes YES this amg yes.Both men and women use “upspeak” and other inflections during regular conversations, but only women get criticized for it. People listen to the words a man says, but listen to the way a woman says the same thing. -- source link