Wordslut

Who am I? I've read 2 nonfiction books this month? This is fun. 10/10 if you are not a nonfiction reader audiobooks are so much fun way to try em out.

I once again don't think I'm going to rate this book, rating nonfiction feels weird to me because like it's information? But I digress.

This was an incredibly interesting depiction of how gender and sex is woven into our every day language. I loved learning about the linguist aspects of language and how evolution has taken place over many many decades.

The narrator is the author and her love for this topic metaphorically flies off the pages.

Actually giggled out loud when she said “the rare and exotic lady surgeon”

Not a bad read but an extremely feminism 101 level read with a little intro to socio linguistic. If you're already passingly familiar with the idea of inclusive language you probably won't get more than few tidbits of new information from this one and considering when this book came out I expected more from it. I wasn't the right audience for this one.

I love linguistics 

I love nerding out over stuff like this!

Wildly entertaining book.
It literally felt like a conversation with a “cool nerd” which is literally my favourite thing to do.
Everything brought up in this book was relevant, fresh and so, so feminist.
I loved it. 

Fun, informative read. Especially loved the second half with the chapters setting the record straight on how teenaged girls speak and queer language like "yass queen!"

She had me, not quite at hello, but certainly by the second page, and she kept me hooked the entire way through. So many of my favorite subjects! Linguistics. Etymology. Culture, anthropology, listening, communicating. Snark. Ideas. Smart, strong, sexy women working together to smash the patriarchy. I want to read it again. I want to buy a dozen copies to give away.

Not all of it was entirely comprehensible, but that's my fault: I'm too old and unhip. I still don't really know what “vocal fry” is, despite friend A. spending 20 minutes with me on it. (Or, I guess I now know more about it, but I've never noticed it and don't understand why it's such a huge deal to some people). And there are terms like “yas” and ”werk” that completely whooshed over my head. But that's cool — I mean hip — or groovy — or phat? Whatever. By far the majority of the book is informative, thoughtful, relevant, and a joy to read: Montell writes beautifully and with gusto.

Super interesting and informative

An excellent read, although it seems to peter out a bit at the end.

2.5 There is a lot of repetition of the linguist's mantra describe don't prescribe. Chapter eight includes a wincing mess about how we have rebellious sexist insults because our mothers were our first examples of authority figures who restricted our freedoms.