Nicole Nelson

Go, Gillian (and Jenny)! 🥳

Adam Parkhomenko again. Different day, same soft misogyny.

Lucky me; safe, for sure.

If the media covered science as reverentially as it does religion, we'd all be better off.

Sing it, sister.

Love the episode title. Outstanding content — with one gripe. The ageist banter at the beginning, reinforcing the sexist idea that women should be coy about their age rather than confident in their experience, was a bummer. Please interrogate rather than amplify ageism in the future.

Writing Direction Affects How People Map Space Onto Time What determines which spatial axis people use to represent time? We investigate effects of writing direction. English, like Mandarin Chinese in mainland China, is written left to right and then top to...

The writing direction of a culture can in fact impact how people map concepts like time and amount. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC....

Why did I press the wrong button on this hotel gym bike when I wanted more resistance? The button placement was counter-intuitive (for me).

Following a hunch, I checked where the company was based. Taiwan. In Taiwan, characters are written predominantly top to bottom and then *right to left*.

Fred Wellman writes Hegseth "can scream and cry like the little bitch he is..."

Another offender (although about Hegseth).

This is such a great idea.

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💯 I have never understood why Dems haven't worked harder to internalize Lakoff's work. Harris did go with "Freedom" as a theme, but there wasn't time to drive home how her candidacy stood for freedom for all Americans. The Political Mind was published in 2008, but it reads today as prescient, alas.

FrameLab A newsletter about language, politics and your brain. Gil Durán and Dr. George Lakoff

Framelab is a great source of information about language and politics. (I have no connection to it other than subscribing.) The Framlab book club is reading Lakoff's The Political Mind right now -- members can submit Qs on chapters 5-7 before Friday for the next Zoom discussion. www.theframelab.org

Yes. I share your pain.

Dems, lamentably, have been slow to intentionally frame and usually adopt GOP frames. George Lakoff (a progressive linguist and an expert on metaphors) has written books, including Don't Think of an Elephant about political framing. (Buttigieg reportedly has studied Lakoff's work and is a fan.)

The Luntz Memo: Controlling the Narrative - The American Leader In a now infamous memo, strategist Frank Luntz advised Republicans to cast doubt on climate change by emphasizing emotions rather than facts.

Frank Luntz, serving the interests of Big Oil, advised Republicans to use "climate change" instead of "global warming" because that phrasing makes the problem sound like "a more controllable and less emotional challenge." theamericanleader.org/timeline-eve...

Thank you!

Thank you, Brianna! I appreciate your warm welcome — I’m beyond thrilled to join you!

Thank you, Daelyn!

South Carolina Bill: Miscarriage Care Can’t Be Called ‘Abortion’—Even When It Is HB 4130 is conservatives' latest attack on medical language and care

As terrifying as this is, it doesn't even stop there. Jessica Valenti's recent Substack post details legislative attempts to control medical providers' language "...ignoring scientific reality for whatever is most politically useful."
jessica.substack.com/p/south-caro...

And, did I mention generous?! Seriously grateful.

Thank you for the warm welcome Claire!

Thank you, Anna! 💜

I'm thrilled to share that I've signed with the incredible @jennaschmenna.bsky.social at @stormliterary.bsky.social! In addition to being super-insightful, sharp, and kind, Jenna shares my vision for my work. I look forward to a long and successful partnership!

Ambiguity in short stories from Dorothy Parker Some examples of ambiguity in Parker's prose, with a brief reflection on how ambiguity informed her writing.

Some examples of ambiguity in Parker's prose, with a brief reflection on how ambiguity informed her writing. nicolenelson.substack.com/p/ambiguity-...

Adam Parkhomenko calls the POTUS “Putin’s bitch”

Ron Filipkowski calls the POTUS “Putin’s bitch”

Brian Beutler compares Musk to “a little bitch”

Josh Marshall compares POTUS’s reaction to a “stung bitch”

Why use a derogatory phrase against women to characterize the toxic depravity on display in the WH today? Check your soft misogyny, friends.

Wish you wouldn’t inject misogyny (“like a little bitch”) into this otherwise important post.

Roxane Gay talk in the afternoon, Sandra Cisneros in the evening, both in OC? Next Tuesday is shaping up nicely! (Thank you, IVC Ethnic Studies Program and Sage Hill's Sage Center.)

I don’t share this reading of the exchange. It seems to me that this person speaking is MAGA, responding to the first woman (who prob saw a Trump bumper sticker) telling her she is in a cult. Regardless, I don’t find slut-shaming or fat-shaming a win.

Thank you, Rep. Lieu. While I voted for and helped cure ballots for then-candidate Min, I would not yet call him a "fantastic" Member of Congress, myself. His vote in favor of the Lakin Riley Act was a huge disappointment.