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Is there a way that women-leadership of language is tied-in with vocal fry and women are trendsetting there too? Not that I have an opinion for or against vocal fry, although I am a woman who does not have vocal fry.
Allow me to put you in your place the way only a women who feels can. I say, instead of trying to qualify everything people say, give listening a go. You may actually hear something that blows away the cloud of patriarchal linguistics. Perhaps, with the air cleared, you'll be able to have a point of view, or at least the gusto to feel without quotation marks.
Or, put in more verbose yet palatable language...
http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/07/can-we-j…
"I feel like" is a non-confrontational qualifier. In conversations that begin that way, the heart of the issue is usually revealed a few sentences later.
E.g., (them) "My mom said, 'Please be quiet,' and I was like, 'Who the fuck do you think you are telling me to be quiet??'"
(me) "Woah! That's amazing... Wait a minute, did you actually say that, or just think it?"
(them) "Oh, I just thought it."
(me) "Did you say anything?"
(them) "No."
(me) "Oh."
Thank you for reading this far.
Your reading comprehension sucks. The author is very clearly arguing the opposite of this.
He BEGINS with the thesis that "women are dooming themselves to an image of wishy-wash by prefacing their thoughts with 'feeling like,'" but he clearly switches gears to point out that women are ACTUALLY leading the charge in changing the language, as well as pointing out that men hedge just as much as women, while simply using different phrases.
So ... was your comment parody? Because otherwise, I think you need to read through this well-researched article again.
Sometimes I feel...
SomeTIMES I feel...
Like I been tied
To the whipping post
Tied
To the whipping post
TIED
To the whipping post
Good...Lord...I...feel....like..I'm..dying'
I bring this up because rather than being used as a qualifier or hedge, "I feel" in this case was employed to provide an air of legitimacy to a pretty lame opinion. "You have a stupid haircut" is just a dumb thing to say, but preceded by "I feel," in the 70's enthusiasm for self-actualization, it was taken to be something authentic and therefore of immense value.