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Young women, give up the vocal fry and reclaim your strong female voice

Young women, give up the vocal fry and reclaim your strong female voice https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/24/vocal-fry-strong-female-voice

Products using Lakoff's theory

The packaging supports Lakoff's deficit model with the lack of capitalization throughout such as "look at that" at the very beginning of the paragraph. It is used here to contradict Lakoff's theory that women always use hyper correct grammar. The reason for the lack of correct grammar may be in order to present a more colloquial feel to seem less imperative, on the other hand it does support Lakoff's theory that women don't swear this is shown with the euphemistic word "blooming". However both of Lakoff's theory's are outdated.

Deborah Cameron Blog

https://debuk.wordpress.com/2016/05/16/the-pronominal-is-political/

Mr, Ms, or Mx? HSBC bank offers trans customers gender-neutral titles

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hsbc-bank-transgender-customers-neutral-titles-mx-ind-mre-a7659686.html This article tells us about the bank HSBC's decsion to offer transgender people the option to have gender-neutral titles. There is are 10 different options including "Mx" and "Mre". This was revealed by  project manager Stuart Barette, who is trans himself, explaining the importance of offering the opportunity for customers to choose from a range of titles. This movement has taken a huge step towards making LGTB+ customers and employees feel respected and valued

Janet Holmes - English Language is sexist

http://emmahlanguageblog.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/janet-holmes.html In this extract Janet Holmes explains how the English language can be per sieved to be sexist towards women with examples like animal imagery that is derogatory to wards women but complimentary towards men, for example women are called "bitch" or "cow" and men are considered as "wolf" or "Stud". She also mentions how women are referred to as food such as "honey" or "tart".