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To gossip, then, isn’t to malign or spread false rumors; it’s to share information and wisdom, to cultivate fellowship, to acknowledge that we are all equals, that we are all in this—this life, this work, this planet—together. That is, to gossip is an act of solidarity, even, at times, of love.
Mandy Brown • Gather your gossips
As Italian scholar Silvia Federici points out in her recent book Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women :
In many parts of the world, women have historically been seen as the weavers of memory — those who keep alive the voices of the past and the histories of the communities, who transmit them to the future generations and, in so doing, create a... See more
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Silvia Fedrici — Witches, Witch Hunting, and Women
One need look no further than the Bible for examples of societal efforts to stifle destructive gossip: A perverse man stirs up dissension, and a gossip separates close friends (Proverbs 16:28) The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to a man’s inmost parts. (Proverbs 18:7–8) For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea... See more
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The repeated attacks on ‘gossiping’, by preachers and satirists alike, reflected a widespread concern that unsupervised female sociability posed a threat to the order and values of patriarchal society.
Patriarchy and the World of Gossips
Bernard Capp
Rysman suggested (perhaps facetiously) that the word acquired negative connotations over time because one of the side effects of women coming together in solidarity was an increase in hassles for men!
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Most researchers agree that the practice involves talk about people who are not present and that this talk is relaxed, informal, and entertaining
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definition of gossip
Deriving from Old English terms God and sibb (akin), “gossip” originally meant “god-parent,” one who stands in a spiritual relation to the child to be baptized. In time, however, the term was used with a broader meaning. In early modern England the word “gossip” referred to companions in childbirth not limited to the midwife. It also became a term... See more
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gossip — etymology
The first known literary use of the word in this negative context occurred in Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the Oxford English Dictionary defines the sixteenth-century use of the word as describing a woman “of light and trifling character” who “delights in “idle talk” and was a “newsmonger” or a “tattler”
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Gelfand says. “As more people are thinking about others’ reputations, they’re getting concerned about their own reputations too, and they don’t want to be the subject of future gossip. So that deters them from acting selfishly.”