Semantics, Sexual Assault/Rape “The preference for ‘survivor’ over ‘victim’ is a shift in language that is as much ideological as linguistic” Author Drew Kaplan Date 19 June 2016 The preference for “survivor” over “victim” is a shift in language that is as...
Semantics “The word ‘thing’ has, of course, long played a versatile and generic role in our language, referring both to physical objects and abstract matters” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 June 2016 The word “thing” has, of course, long played a versatile and generic role in...
Semantics “…now ‘bro’ has been ripped from its life as a teasing term of endearment and description of camaraderie and plunked into the sociopolitical swamps of entitlement and privilege” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 May 2016 Courtesy of “Jersey Shore,” the bro became evidence of ridiculous male friendship, like the...
Semantics “In the old days, bullies were tough guys who picked on wimpy guys, a predictable, archetypal clash that inevitably led to a heroic outcome” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 May 2016 In the old days, bullies were tough guys who picked on wimpy guys, a...
Semantics “It’s…odd that ‘bro’ has become a culturally white designation” Author Drew Kaplan Date 19 April 2016 It’s…odd that “bro” has become a culturally white designation. The word has roots both...
Semantics “Today ’empowerment’ invokes power while signifying the lack of it” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 April 2016 Sneakily, empowerment had turned into a theory that applied to the needy while describing...
Jobs/Professions, Semantics “Jargon acts not only to euphemize, but to license, setting insiders against outsiders…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 April 2016 Professional jargon—on Wall Street, in humanities departments, in government offices—can be a fence raised...
Semantics “’Do you know who I am?’ suggests self-preening, a public sort of dismissal” Author Drew Kaplan Date 26 November 2015 “Do you know who I am?” suggests self-preening, a public sort of dismissal. It...
Beer, Semantics “Like all consumer groupings and their accompanying system of social exchange, the brewing world possesses its own form of language” Author Drew Kaplan Date 26 October 2015 Like all consumer groupings and their accompanying system of social exchange, the brewing world...
Modern Orthodoxy, Semantics “…it is the modernist project that Rabbi Willig further fears will ‘lead to a schism within Orthodoxy…'” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 September 2015 …it is the modernist project that Rabbi Willig further fears will “lead to a...