but if you only know one language, you can’t understand how languages work in general? And if that one language is English, it’s even worse. I mean I wouldn’t call myself a zoologist when I only know about guinea pigs, or an astronomer when I only know one star …
It’s not that simple. Linguists study the science of language. The science of all languages. Knowing any language doesn’t make you an expert in those languages.
Most areas of linguistics study features and behaviors of language that apply to all languages. We aren’t sitting around comparing other languages to English, or dissecting English and holding it as some kind of standard. In fact, in many of my lectures, we examine samples of other languages to study morphology, because you don’t need to be fluent or understand a language to do a cursory exercise on how its morphology is arranged.
And that’s just morphology! There is so much more to linguistics than speaking languages. This is the problem linguists face as professionals: Everyone thinks they are the expert at their language, and they use their language everyday, so they can easily do whatever it is they assume we do. Just because you use language, doesn’t make you a language scientist. That’s what linguists are, and we can study every language and all languages without being fluent. It’s a science, not a contest.
Being a linguist vs. speaking a language is like knowing how to calculate trajectory vs. being good in basketball.
Found Sheila Jeffreys shit book incorrectly filed in the transgender studies section at powells so I helped them out by putting it in its correct place
“I made extra work for librarians, who make very little money. #revolution!”
you’re right, it would be better to throw it in the garbage.
I worked in a library for years. Let me tell you what libraries are for
Every single library should contain books and content that insult people from every background.
I can’t tell you how many times people approached us to say that they think some books should be withdrawn from our collection. Or how some books had cuss and swear words marked out of books. People would try to censor the information within books all the time.
Also, you calling for books to be thrown in the garbage is similar to book burning strategies to prevent people reading controversial topics. I hope you realize that silencing tactics are almost always directed at marginalized populations. The use these tactics to control information.
Lastly, you have in fact caused extra work for librarians and clerks. I don’t give a damn about the content of books. When I first started working at a library, I was shocked by the material we had. Eventually I became so used to seeing these materials that I would unknowingly be holding a book about bdsm topics. If I can disregard the content of books without being personally offended, then so can you. Please don’t move books to the wrong spot. We hate this behavior of our patrons.
I can’t believe they’re the ones trying to censor and destroy literature they disagree with and yet the still have the gall to call us Nazis
OP: continuing the time-honored tradition of TRAs trying to censor and demean feminist texts dating from at least the protests at the Vancouver Women’s Library. Nice work!
Transgender studies, as if looking at multiple views and opinions while studying a topic is a bad thing.
Imagine if this was someone moving The God Delusion from religious studies to “pollution” or threatening to throw it in the trash.
Not only was Sappho a lesbian, but she was so well know for her love of women that women from Lesbos were reputed prefer the company of women for centuries to follow.
Sappho was a lesbian. Wikipedia can literally be changed by anyone. Her “husband’s” name means penis from man island. But yeah, she was totally bi.
Don’t you dare take Sappho from lesbians.
“I don’t understand. Do you mean to say she is one of those man-like
females of Lesbos who will not suffer in their beds the company of men,
but prefer to find pleasure, instead, with other women, as if they
themselves were men?“
This was written some 700-750 years after Sappho was said to have lived, but note the reputation of the women of Lesbos, which is most likely due to the influence of Sappho’s poems which were still well known at the height of the roman empire.
The only reference that lists her as married is the Suda from the 10th century AD, written over a thousand years after her death and as pointed out her husband’s name is a joke (It translates to Dick Allcock from the Isle of Man) and those working on translating the Suda have suggested it refers back to a number of Greek comedies that featured Sappho as a character. The very same entry in the Suda also names three female “companions” of Sappho and mentions that she had incurred accusations of having a “shameful friendship/love” with them (here is the exact reference in the Suda). From this sole source over a thousand years after Sappho’s death and after most of her works had been erased from history comes the idea that she was bisexual.
a fun feature of this website that you cant get everywhere else is that you can write a thought out and specific post on a subject you know a lot about, and then someone will add “no no no you dont get it” and then say the exact same thing you did but worse and more condescending. only other place you can access that kind of experience is if youre a woman talking in real life
As a Ru Paul’s Drag Race fan, it really gets my goat when people, especially women say “for men to be doing this? They do so much work, even more than women. I admire that.” Women have been making themselves over in very painful and time consuming ways for centuries, and a lot of them didn’t have a choice. Women have been told “beauty is pain” since we were little girls, so I don’t appreciate it when men are praised for choosing to dress themselves up as hyperfeminie characters. Women have never been praised for that unless they conform to every little detail, and if they miss out on one thing, they are punished to the highest degree.
Part of attempts to ban all research that involves human fetal tissue, because the superstitious feelings of anti-choice fanatics over useless, garbage corpse flesh is apparently more important than any number of entire human lives.
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