Apparently, cannibalism is now a thing.(For avoidance of doubt: It should be "Kids' halal menu".)
Posted by Laremy Lee on Sunday, 24 May 2015
Tag - language
- The psychology of language: Which words matter the most when we talk | The Buffer Blog
“By always focusing on ‘How will this make someone feel?’ whenever [we wrote] even a single line, we immediately improved the amount of responses we got from our users”.
- The Power of Names | The New Yorker
“…words carry hidden baggage that may play at least some role in shaping thought. What’s surprising, perhaps, is how profoundly a single word can shape material outcomes over time”.
- The Power of a Word | The Dilbert Blog
Observe how an argument is transformed when a loaded word is substituted with another word that reframes the discourse.
- What It Should Have Been: Edition #3 | Vox Nostra: A Voice Of Our Own
Part of the Disabled People’s Association, Singapore’s public education initiative on the use of proper terminology to describe people with disabilities. Find out more about how this started here.
- Are You a Language Bully? | Slate
“Those who engage in public corrections of this sort often are looking to feel good about themselves, and…displays of language all-knowing-ness provide a ready-made, two-pronged opportunity to do so. ‘The way we evaluate our competence is relative to other people,’ he says. ‘If I need to feel good about my language skills, one way that I could do that would be to give myself evidence that my language skills are awesome. Another is to give myself evidence that other people’s language skills suck. So by putting down other people, I can feel better about myself.'”.Whoops :S
Fortunately or unfortunately, the only service provided here is education.
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- The Awesome Sex Worker Who Loves Disabled Clients | Jezebel
Eye-opening; hadn’t even been aware about this issue until reading the article and watching the video.
- True Stories: I Was A Receptionist In An Australian Brothel | Nerve
“Sometimes they ask me if I’m tempted to jump the counter, make $250 an hour instead of $30. My Australian blue-collar boyfriend angrily asked me the same question when I first started work… . The guys who call, overwhelmed by all the choices I offer them, frequently say, “You sound nice. Can I just have you?” I laugh and tell them no”.
- Adventures in Ideas: Sex Workers of the World, Unite! An Interview With Maxine Doogan | Freakonomics
“…I met several exotic dancers who didn’t think of themselves as sex workers… . It was important to them to protect their legal work status and not admit that some of their activities inside the dance clubs involved sex… . Then there are those who call themselves specific names like escorts or courtesans as a means of separating their activities from prostitutes because they don’t want to be associated with something that carries so many negative social stigmas and results in so much discrimination… . That’s why I named our organization Erotic Service Providers – it speaks more specifically to the fact that our labor is erotic in nature without using the hot button ‘sex’ word, but still calls out how our respective sub-economies have intersections that [a]ffect each other”.
- The Year I Spent As A Phone-Sex Operator | Nerve
“Being a phone-sex operator was a lot like sitting in a confessional when the priest is away. You hear private things that should probably be told to someone else, but they need to be told to someone, so it might as well be you”.
- Storytime with… A Happy Endings Masseur for Women | Nerve
“Women aren’t generally known to be the recipients of happy ending massages. Is there a hidden demand that you’re meeting?Absolutely. Clients’ attitudes are, when it comes to happy endings, why should men have all the fun? With nearly 300 individual clients to date, many of whom are regulars, there’s obviously a strong demand for this kind of thing”.