George Orwell worried that a shrinking vocabulary would eventually produce a shrinking range of thought.
It is difficult to think a nuanced thought with a blunt language.
The literacy crisis isn’t that people can’t read the words. It’s that they can’t understand the context, infer meaning, recognise nuance, identify contradictions, or draw logical conclusions from what they’ve read.
la ironía de que la fifa te saca tarjeta roja si le hablas a tu rival tapandote la boca pero te deja jugar tranquilisimo aunque tengas 47 causas abiertas por abuso sexual o violencia de género
Bollywood actresses happily enjoy the freedoms, careers, visibility, autonomy won by generations of women who fought tooth and nail for their rights, only to turn around and declare “I’m not a feminist”, because distancing themselves from feminism earns approval from a predominantly male audience. Fuck them.