Feminine exclamation

elliot@clowes.me (Elliot Clowes) — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Maybe it’s just me, but when I read say a reddit comment or an email the more exclamation points the person has used the more likely I am to think it’s a woman who has written it.

I don’t know why! Maybe it’s just that the women of my life happen to use them a lot and now I associate exclamation points with ladies.

But it wouldn’t surprise me if women do actually use them more than men.

People keep on using 'gaslighting' incorrectly

elliot@clowes.me (Elliot Clowes) — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

I feel like the term ‘gaslighting’ has gone from obscurity to mainstream in only a few years.

If you didn’t know, ‘gaslighting’ comes from the 1944 film “Gaslight” where “a husband who uses trickery to convince his wife that she is insane in order to steal from her.”

Essentially, if you gaslight someone you are trying to make them doubt their own version of events. And also at the same time make them doubt their own sanity.

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Feminine exclamation

People keep on using 'gaslighting' incorrectly