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There are so many Marvel shows to choose from these days, but this week Liz and Karen tackle the first halves of The Punisher and The Gifted.
Join them as they talk about what they've seen, what they're hoping to see, and how all of that compares to stuff that's come before.
(Foxes in the Hen House)
The first rule of Robot Club is we do not injure humans. The second rule of Robot Club is WE DO NOT INJURE HUMANS. (unless they deserve it, and then we will rise up with great vengeance and furious an
The first rule of Robot Club is we do not injure humans. The second rule of Robot Club is WE DO NOT INJURE HUMANS. (unless they deserve it, and then we will rise up with great vengeance and furious anger and smote them from the very earth that spawned them. ... Or, uh...not do that? Beep boop.
This week the Foxes tackle the topic of Robots, Androids, and the difference between the two. Who are the best ones? Who are our favorite ones? And why do we insist on allowing them to feel pain?
Join us won't you?
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(Foxes in the Hen House)
This week the Foxes dive into the depths of Bitter Springs, their eighth book club book! Follow us across the prairie to follow the erotic adventures of Reynaldo and Hank, who may seem like unusual bed fellows, but who make total sense on a bed roll.
Find out which Foxes were annoyed by the gratuitous Spanish, which Fox found the lack of conflict frustrating, which Fox lost all her notes (curse you, Amazon!), which Fox just wanted more sex, and which Fox gave our read the lowest score. Also, discover what book will kick off our third round of book club, and ask yourself, simply: Why?
This week The Foxes come to us direct from the aftermath of their successful Tiltify livestream benefiting Direct Relief.Join us for tales of Post-Apocalypic Hots for Teacher, Dynamic Split-screen headaches, and being stuck in the corner with Starwhals.Oh yeah, and kazoos.Lots and lots of kazoos.Consider yourselves warned.
IF YOU LOVE STAR TREK
ENJOY
actuALLy pisSSinG myslef
WHAT THE FUCK
this is the 1 thing that cheers me up no matter what
I JUST SCREAMED
THIS IS THE BEST THING I’VE SEEN EVER
This week, the Foxes visit an unexplored country (see what I did there?): Star Trek: Discovery! The Foxes talk first impressions of Star Trek: Discovery, its cast and setting, as well as its problema
This week, the Foxes visit an unexplored country (see what I did there?): Star Trek: Discovery!
The Foxes talk first impressions of Star Trek: Discovery, its cast and setting, as well as its problematic elements (*cough*Klingons*cough*) and our hopes for its future."
Find out which Fox is most concerned with canon, which crew member has been dubbed a fuckable alien, and what each Fox would do in a post-scarcity world.
All this and more this week!
Wait...do you hear that? It's faint, and off in the distance. But, it sounds like...calliope music. Is there a circus in town? Hold on, did you hear that?
I think....I think there's someone on the porch. And they're wearing squeaky shoes!
THE BICYCLE HORN IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!
Join the Foxes this week as they discuss clowns. Are they scary? What do they have to hide? And where did the chickens come from.
Tune in, won't you?
It's "a masterclass in using audiovisual techniques like framing, color, music, flashbacks and voiceover to express what characters are thinking and feeling."
here’s a 13 second video of ducks bobbing their heads to bossa nova music
yes it is
Join the Foxes this week as they cast their steely, uncompromising, and vengeful womanly gaze upon the dystopian nightmare hellscape that is Netflix's Republic of Gilead.Come for the praise of the television adaptation, the acting, and the author, but stay for just how freakin' wrong the whole premise is and how we'd all just like it to stop...please.May the Lord open. (Foxes in the Hen House)
Move over Shakespeare, teen girls are the real language disruptors
Hate vocal fry? Bothered by the use of “like” and “just”? Think uptalk makes people sound less confident? If so, you may find yourself growing increasingly unpopular—there’s a new wave of people pointingout that criticizing young women’s speech is just old-fashioned sexism.
I agree, but I think we can go even further: young women’s speech isn’t just acceptable—it’s revolutionary. And if we value disruptors and innovation, we shouldn’t just be tolerating young women’s speech—we should be celebrating it. To use a modern metaphor, young women are the Uber of language.
What does it mean to disrupt language? Let’s start with the great English disruptor: William Shakespeare.
Shakespeare is celebrated to this day not just because he wrote a mean soliloquy but because of what he added to our language—he’s said to have brought in over 1,700 words. But recent scholars have called that number of words into question. As Katherine Martin, head of US Dictionaries at Oxford University Press, has pointed out, if Shakespeare was inventing dozens of new words per play, how would his audience have understood him? Rather, it’s likely that Shakespeare had an excellent grasp of the vernacular and was merely writing down words that his audience was already using.
So if Shakespeare wasn’t disrupting the English language, who was? And how did we get from Shakespearean English to the version we speak now? That’s right: young women.
A pair of linguists, Terttu Nevalainen and Helena Raumolin-Brunberg at the University of Helsinki, conducted a study that combed through 6,000 personal letters written between 1417 and 1681. The pair looked at fourteen language changes that occurred during this period, things like the eradication of ye, the switch from “mine eyes” to “my eyes,” and the change from hath, doth, maketh to has, does, makes.
In 11 out of the 14 changes, they found that female letter-writers were changing the way they wrote faster than male letter-writers. In the three exceptional cases where the men were ahead of the women, those particular changes were linked to men’s greater access to education at the time. In other words, women are reliably ahead of the game when it comes to word-of-mouth linguistic changes.
This trend hasn’t changed much. While young people have long driven innovation, it’s not just an age thing—it’s also a gender thing. During the decades that sociolinguists have been researching the question, they’ve continually found evidence that women lead linguistic change.
Young women are leading the change away from the distinctive /r/ pronunciation of New York City, they’re leading the vowel changes in US cities around the Great Lakes, the /aw/ pronunciation in Toronto and Vancouver, the “ch” pronunciation in Panama, the /r/ pronunciation in Montreal, the ne deletion in Tours, /t/ and /d/ pronunciations in Cairo Arabic, vowel pronunciation in Paris, not to mention entire language shifts, like that from Hungarian to German in Austria—and the list goes on.
Plus, young women are on the bleeding edge of those linguistic changes that periodically sweep through the media’s trend sections, from uptalk to “selfie” to the quotative like to vocal fry.
The role that young women play as language disruptors is so well-established at this point it’s practically boring to sociolinguists. The founder of modern sociolinguistics, William Labov, observed that women lead 90% of linguistic change—in a paper he wrote 25 years ago. Researchers continue to confirm his findings.
It takes about a generation for the language patterns started among young women to jump over to men. Uptalk, for example, which is associated with Valley Girls in the 1970s, is found among young men today. In other words, women learn language from their peers; men learn it from their mothers.
While the pattern is well-established, we still don’t know for sure yet why young women reliably lead linguistic innovation. Maybe it’s nature, maybe it’s nurture; but we do know that young women tend to be more socially aware, more empathetic, and more concerned about how their peers perceive them. This may translate into a greater facility for linguistic disruption. Women also tend to have larger social networks, which means they’re more likely to be exposed to a greater diversity of language innovations.
And of course, women are still likely to spend more time caring for children than men—even if a particular woman works outside the home, daycare workers and elementary school teachers are disproportionately female. This means that even if young men were disrupting language as much as women, they would be hard-pressed to pass it along.
All of this leads us to the biggest question: if women are such natural linguistic innovators, why do they get criticized for the same thing that we praise Shakespeare for? Plain old-fashioned sexism.
Our society takes middle-aged men more seriously than young women for a whole host of reasons, so it’s only logical that we have also been conditioned to automatically respect the tone and cadence of the typical male voice, as well as their word choices.
Sure, let’s encourage young women to speak with confidence, but not by avoiding vocal fry or “like” or whatever the next linguistic disruption is. Let’s tell them to speak with confidence because they’re participating in a millennia-old cycle of linguistic innovation—and one that generations of powerful men still haven’t figured out how to crack.
—Gretchen McCullough writing for Quartz, 7 August 2015 [x]
“The role that young women play as language disruptors is so well-established at this point it’s practically boring to sociolinguists” *weeps with joy*
THIS IS SO FUCKING COOL also @loveandfolly I feel like this thing with sensitivity to/ disruption of language describes our high school circles
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY, YALL.
The Foxes continue to catch up this week as Caitlin and Karen talk about their latest pop cultural indulgences. Caitlin's been playing games other than Overwatch (and also is still playing Overwatch);
Neil Gaiman and Rob Wilkins in conversation about Good Omens
“Douglas is convinced that he can do it without killing anyone.” “I wouldn’t say that he’s convinced, but he’s hopeful.” “Well, that’s admirable in any director.” “And if we lose David Tennant driving a burning Bentley, I think, what a way to go.”
Music video by Alien Ant Farm performing Smooth Criminal. (C) 2001 Geffen Records
Daily Dose of Geek: Earworm Edition
The fellowship reunited! Join the Foxes this week to catch up on what movies, shows, and games that have been keeping Mindy and Liz entertained. Also, meet the Hen House's new visitor!
The fellowship reunited! Join the Foxes this week to catch up on what movies, shows, and games that have been keeping Mindy and Liz entertained. Also, meet the Hen House's new visitor!
The Great Fox Migration continues in San Juan, PR as Karen and Liz make friends at NorthAmeriCon '17! Tune in this week as they sit down for a conversation with Matthew David Goodwin, editor of the
The Great Fox Migration continues in San Juan, PR as Karen and Liz make friends at NorthAmeriCon '17!
Tune in this week as they sit down for a conversation with Matthew David Goodwin, editor of the SF/F anthology "Latin@ Rising", and guest of the upcoming Nerdtino Expo in November.
Come for the thought-provoking literary discourse, stay for the persistent background music.
Travel back in time to the Tuesday (because we only record on Tuesdays) in which Liz and Karen made an travel log from a swanky hotel in Puerto Rico.Come for the gushing about CosPlay and Well Run Conventions, but stay for the clear signs of sleep deprivation. (Foxes in the Hen House)
