{"id":62900,"date":"2014-06-21T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=62900"},"modified":"2015-02-01T03:16:45","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T08:16:45","slug":"saturday-stat-womens-refusal-to-be-deferent-and-the-words-that-describe-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/06\/21\/saturday-stat-womens-refusal-to-be-deferent-and-the-words-that-describe-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Stat: Women&#8217;s Refusal to be Deferent and the Words that Describe Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to data gathered from the\u00a0<a class=\"ui-link\" style=\"color: #003366;\" href=\"http:\/\/corpus.byu.edu\/coca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Corpus of Contemporary American English<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0linguistics PhD student\u00a0Nic Subtirelu, women are called &#8220;pushy&#8221; twice as often as men, while men are more likely to be described as &#8220;condescending.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/06\/18.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-62904\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/06\/18-500x384.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"500\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/06\/18-500x384.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/06\/18.jpg 554w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At his blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/linguisticpulse.com\/2014\/05\/19\/beyond-bossy-more-on-our-gendered-characterizations-of-leadership-and-authority\/\" target=\"_blank\">Linguistic Pulse<\/a>, Subtirelu argues:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Condescending<\/em>\u00a0seems to differ from\u00a0<em>pushy<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>bossy<\/em>\u00a0in an important way, namely that it seems to acknowledge the target\u2019s authority and power even if it does not fully accept it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Subtirelu has also ran the numbers for &#8220;bossy&#8221; and <a href=\"http:\/\/linguisticpulse.com\/2014\/03\/28\/no-really-bossy-is-gendered\/\" target=\"_blank\">found<\/a> that it was used to described women 1.5 times more often than men.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to data gathered from the\u00a0Corpus of Contemporary American English\u00a0by\u00a0linguistics PhD student\u00a0Nic Subtirelu, women are called &#8220;pushy&#8221; twice as often as men, while men are more likely to be described as &#8220;condescending.&#8221; At his blog, Linguistic Pulse, Subtirelu argues: Condescending\u00a0seems to differ from\u00a0pushy\u00a0and\u00a0bossy\u00a0in an important way, namely that it seems to acknowledge the target\u2019s authority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":62904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23384,55,2098,23680,283,76],"class_list":["post-62900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-gender","tag-gender-prejudicediscrimination","tag-gender-sexism","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/06\/18.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62906,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62900\/revisions\/62906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}