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Even before its usage to mean a female canine, bitch didn’t refer to gender at all—it originated as a gender-neutral word meaning genitalia. A perfectly innocuous word devolving into a female insult is the case for tons more terms, including hussy—which simply meant “housewife”—or slut, which meant “untidy” and was also used to describe men. These words are just a few among history’s many English slurs hurled at women. Amanda Montell, feminist linguist and staff features editor at online beauty and health magazine Byrdie.com, deconstructs language—from insults and cursing to grammar and pronunciation patterns—to reveal the ways it has been used for centuries to keep women form gaining equality. Ever wonder why so many people are annoyed when women use the word “like” as a filler? Or why certain gender neutral terms stick and others don’t? Or even how linguists have historically discussed women’s speech patterns? Wordslut is no stuffy academic study; Montell’s irresistible humor shines through, making linguistics not only approachable but both downright hilarious and profound, demonstrated in chapters such as: Slutty Skanks and Nasty Dykes: A Comprehensive List of Gendered Insults How to Embarrass the Shit Out of People Who Try to Correct Your Grammar Fuck it: An Ode to Cursing While Female Cyclops, Panty Puppet, Bald Headed Bastard and 100+ Other Things to Call Your Genitalia Montell effortlessly moves between history and popular culture to explore these questions and more. 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The study clarifies the essence of materialistic philosophy, its appeal, and its limitations in explaining the human phenomenon, arguing that it fundamentally attacks human nature.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01krp0hnj0jm7n5tzemy2x3n6b.jpg","L6FO_m-:00%NN2WC?Et600ax?dIV",2002,240,[153],{"id":154,"slug":155,"name":156},"01kmdprkgftt1fvdv3fjfjk7zy","aabd-alohab-almsyry-haxr","عبد الوهاب المسيري",[158,159,163,167,168,169],{"id":33,"name":34,"slug":35,"is_fiction":19},{"id":160,"name":161,"slug":162,"is_fiction":19},106,"Religion","religion",{"id":164,"name":165,"slug":166,"is_fiction":19},75,"Philosophy & Religion","philosophy-religion",{"id":29,"name":30,"slug":31,"is_fiction":19},{"id":110,"name":111,"slug":112,"is_fiction":19},{"id":126,"name":127,"slug":128,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":137,"complexity":7,"audience":71,"mood":172,"themes":173,"setting_period":7,"summary":174,"content_warnings":7},[76,74,140,139],[],"This book offers a critical examination of materialistic philosophy, a school of thought that has profoundly influenced modern ideas such as Marxism, pragmatism, and Darwinism. 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Introverts, who recharge in solitude and think most clearly alone, are routinely treated as a problem to be corrected rather than a different, equally valid way of engaging with the world.\n\nDrawing on psychology, neuroscience, and history, Cain traces how this bias took hold over the twentieth century, profiles influential introverts from Rosa Parks to Steve Wozniak, and dismantles the myth that open-plan offices and group brainstorming produce better ideas than solitary, focused work. 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Rejecting the idea of love as a mere feeling, she insists that love is an action — a practice rooted in care, commitment, trust, responsibility, respect, and honesty — and one that cannot be separated from justice.\n\nAcross a series of clear, personal, and searching essays, hooks examines how a culture shaped by patriarchy, consumerism, and domination distorts our capacity to love, from childhood and family to romance, friendship, community, and spiritual life.\n\nBlending memoir, criticism, and ethics, All About Love is both a diagnosis of a loveless culture and a hopeful blueprint for change. 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He categorizes these roles into five types, where individuals often pretend their work holds more value than it does. Graeber traces the historical roots of associating labor with self-worth and proposes universal basic income as a potential remedy for this societal issue.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kr2a0rgys2jp67pk11ys71y6.jpg","L5O|#0N$0DtU.TofV?jr01kBSiaz",2018,333,[269],{"id":270,"slug":271,"name":272},"01kjsthnc7690szpv8ax02hww6","david-graeber-onfi","David Graeber",[274,275,276],{"id":33,"name":34,"slug":35,"is_fiction":19},{"id":29,"name":30,"slug":31,"is_fiction":19},{"id":122,"name":123,"slug":124,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":68,"complexity":7,"audience":71,"mood":279,"themes":281,"setting_period":7,"summary":263,"content_warnings":7},[73,76,74,280],"satirical",[],{"id":283,"slug":284,"title":285,"description":286,"primary_cover_url":287,"cover_blurhash":288,"first_publish_year":9,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":289,"authors":290,"genres":295,"series":305,"enrichment":306},"01krp08gtbddk5w8bmnhsj1xx1","digital-minimalism-hqsq","Digital Minimalism","The key to living well in a high tech world is to spend much less time using technology. Our relationship with personal technology has shifted, with many feeling troubled by the control these tools exert over daily life. In Digital Minimalism, Cal Newport proposes a bold solution: a minimalist approach to technology use where you radically reduce online time, focusing on a small set of carefully-selected activities.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01krp08gyjrydnvn4exqv66j33.jpg","LAPQy.%g?w.9ozV@x]aeR*oznNWC",304,[291],{"id":292,"slug":293,"name":294},"01kpkh4etm93f1ke0yc8tyrdr1","cal-newport-hjjw","Cal Newport",[296,297,298,299,300,301],{"id":196,"name":197,"slug":198,"is_fiction":19},{"id":192,"name":193,"slug":194,"is_fiction":19},{"id":29,"name":30,"slug":31,"is_fiction":19},{"id":205,"name":206,"slug":207,"is_fiction":19},{"id":33,"name":34,"slug":35,"is_fiction":19},{"id":302,"name":303,"slug":304,"is_fiction":19},81,"Technology","technology",[],{"pace":68,"complexity":7,"audience":71,"mood":307,"themes":309,"setting_period":7,"summary":310,"content_warnings":7},[74,73,76,308],"inspiring",[],"Our relationship with personal technology has shifted, leaving many feeling overwhelmed by its control over daily life. 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He recounts a childhood spent partly in hiding, navigating the absurd and brutal logic of a system built on racial classification, and the poverty, violence, and improvised survival of township life after apartheid's fall.\n\nAt the center of every story is his mother, Patricia — fearless, devout, stubborn, and endlessly resourceful — whose tough love and refusal to be limited shaped the man Noah became. Told in vivid, self-deprecating vignettes, the book is by turns hilarious and harrowing, a portrait of a singular family and a country remaking itself.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kjq72p60g7h4g55zxxzygyqy.jpg","LfK1BrD*%LxtHWWnozbb^kxuRkf8",2016,336,[527],{"id":528,"slug":529,"name":530},"01kjq72p4e8ppvyvckn7dapqtf","trevor-noah-1rlv","Trevor Noah",[532,536,537,541,542,543,544,545],{"id":533,"name":534,"slug":535,"is_fiction":19},88,"Biography","biography",{"id":475,"name":476,"slug":477,"is_fiction":18},{"id":538,"name":539,"slug":540,"is_fiction":19},69,"Biography & Memoir","biography-memoir",{"id":118,"name":119,"slug":120,"is_fiction":19},{"id":29,"name":30,"slug":31,"is_fiction":19},{"id":201,"name":202,"slug":203,"is_fiction":19},{"id":243,"name":244,"slug":245,"is_fiction":19},{"id":546,"name":547,"slug":548,"is_fiction":18},119,"Humor","humor",[],{"pace":68,"complexity":7,"audience":71,"mood":551,"themes":552,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[75,139],[553],"coming-of-age",{"id":555,"slug":556,"title":557,"description":558,"primary_cover_url":559,"cover_blurhash":560,"first_publish_year":561,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":114,"authors":562,"genres":567,"series":573,"enrichment":574},"01kkfh03pke856d1a7v63xzd86","seule-dans-raqqa-br6q","Seule dans Raqqa","This book tells the harrowing true story of Nissan Ibrahim, a Syrian woman who defied ISIS from within Raqqa, the group's de facto capital. 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Today there is only one. 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