A*#holes and B%tches

Lexicon Valley

Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Dividing up nouns as “masculine” and “feminine” has not been a part of English for many centuries. And yet our language remains peppered throughout with gender, often overtly in terms like Mrs. and Mr. Sometimes, however, it’s more subtle. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lexicon Valley⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. A Booksmart Studios production. Episode 224: "A*#holes and B%tches." With John McWhorter. Produced and edited by Mike Vuolo. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:08.6	I'm John McWhorter.
1:10.5	And where I want to start is, of all places, of all people, Lorraine Hansberry. I happen to read a biography of her recently. This is the black female playwright and author. Something about Lorraine Hansberry's life got me thinking about how English marks gender, beyond the
1:30.7	current they issue that so many of us are moved by. And I know that most people would not
1:36.7	readily associate Lorraine Hansberry with gender marking, but bear with me. This is how all of
1:42.0	this happened. So it's the early 50s.
1:45.1	Lorraine Hansberry is a very young woman.
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