Stephanie Rodgers

Feminist, leftie, green māmā from Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Category: Language

  • How the Dirty Politics machine continues to do its work

    “There are a few basic propositions with negative campaigning that are worth knowing about. It lowers turnout, favours the right more than the left as the right continue to turn…


  • QOTD: Andrea Grimes on what men can do

    From I Made a Joke About Guns and a Man Threatened to Assault Me at RH Reality Check: I don’t need men to individually and personally step up to protect me. I need…


  • QOTD: snark vs smarm

    From the epic On Smarm by Tom Scocca at Gawker: Snark is often conflated with cynicism, which is a troublesome misreading. Snark may speak in cynical terms about a cynical world, but…


  • QOTD: Aditya Mukerjee on the second-class languages of Unicode

    At Model View Culture, an article hilariously/depressingly entitled “I Can Text You a Pile of Poo, But I Can’t Write My Name“: The very first version of the Unicode standard…


  • Language is power

    Two otherwise-unconnected stories tell us a lot about how our perceptions and attitudes can be deliberately manipulated with the use of language: At The Intercept, The Orwellian re-branding of “mass…