words matter

It’s what makes women ‘power-hungry’ or ‘manipulative’ where men are ‘ambitious’ and ‘shrewd’.

As a certified bed rotting girlie™️ myself, I can say my horizontality is both restorative and avoidant, and when I work from bed, it can even be productive ( it’s giving Prousting ). Sometimes laying down is just laying down. Other times it’s a depressive episode. The question is: are you in your rot era or is your rot era in you?

—Mariam Sharia p

Chat” evokes what search engines and databases cannot: a sense of personal involvement. It implicates one’s selfhood, which helps cultivate certain behaviors

The limits of that language—shared assumptions of class, culture, education, ethics—both focus and shrink the scope of the fiction.

Words and their meanings have weight in the world of matter, shaping and reshaping realities through a most ancient alchemy.

Dr. Stibbe’s book, The Stories We Live By, and free online course are full of real-life examples: of economics textbooks that describe people as “consumers” who are driven by an insatiable need to buy; the government documents that position cows and horses as “units” as though they are as lifeless as a kitchen cupboard; and the United Nations’ Sust

The term bedrotting screams the quiet part aloud: when the ability to work is cherished above all else, rest has to be framed as abject.