We never knew the real history behind the dark bay gelding. The people who asked to pasture him with Poncho only knew that him was older, gentle, and gaited. They knew next to nothing about horses-dangerously so. They rarely even came to see him. Gradually, George became a part of our lives. When they decided […]

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Originally posted on language: a feminist guide:
This week everyone’s been talking about an article in the Economist explaining how men’s use of language undermines their authority. According to the author, a senior manager at Microsoft, men have a bad habit of punctuating everything they say with sentence adverbs like ‘actually’, ‘obviously’, ‘seriously’ and ‘frankly’.…

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