Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Last night after the veep debate, my friends and I couldn’t stop doing the Sarah ...

Robin Lakoff is a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Language and Woman's Place 'It's not about emails; it's about public communication by a woman’ ...

The debate over how women talk is coming to a head. In May, Amy Schumer parodied women's tendency to over-apologize in a widely lauded "Inside Amy Schumer" sketch titled, "I'm sorry." A few months ...