i stand no chance of growing up

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Unnecessary “fillers” in our speech. I’d rather have “like” than up-talking, though (if we had to choose one, that is). Ewwww, up-talking. Then again, a combination of the two would render me homicidal maniac.

Like, did you ever notice? That, like, the speech patterns people, like, think are stupid?  Are, like, commonly associated with, like, women?

And, like, there’s this thing? Where, like, women aren’t supposed to be, like, assertive? So they, like, qualify their speech? Because, like, we’re not supposed to, like, stand by our opinions?

1) humiliate women so they don’t feel qualified to speak authoritatively about anything

2) humiliate women for speaking in such a way that reflects how you treat her

3) laugh, you are superior because you don’t use words like “like.”  It isn’t as if being a huge stupid asshole has ever made you worse than a woman who speaks with verbal tics.  

Women have unique speech patterns, and NPR even did a show about the unique patterns of just teenage girls that we create to add more depth to the English language where it is lacking in vocabulary. And our culture say those girls are stupid and uncultured. So like, omg, you can go fuck yourself, patriarchy.

i fucking treasure my abuse of “like,” p e r s o n a l l y