{"id":129149,"date":"2015-10-31T11:33:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T11:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/31\/robothugscomic-new-comic-link-its-just-a\/"},"modified":"2018-09-04T22:28:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T22:28:43","slug":"robothugscomic-new-comic-link-its-just-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/31\/robothugscomic-new-comic-link-its-just-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-129149 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/31\/robothugscomic-new-comic-link-its-just-a\/attachment\/129150\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nwymhjU7mS1t1brz9o1_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nwymhjU7mS1t1brz9o1_1280-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nwymhjU7mS1t1brz9o1_1280-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/31\/robothugscomic-new-comic-link-its-just-a\/attachment\/129151\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nwymhjU7mS1t1brz9o2_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nwymhjU7mS1t1brz9o2_1280-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nwymhjU7mS1t1brz9o2_1280-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/31\/robothugscomic-new-comic-link-its-just-a\/attachment\/129152\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nwymhjU7mS1t1brz9o3_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nwymhjU7mS1t1brz9o3_1280-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nwymhjU7mS1t1brz9o3_1280-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/31\/robothugscomic-new-comic-link-its-just-a\/attachment\/129153\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nwymhjU7mS1t1brz9o4_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nwymhjU7mS1t1brz9o4_1280-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nwymhjU7mS1t1brz9o4_1280-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/robothugscomic.tumblr.com\/post\/132147742135\" target=\"_blank\">robothugscomic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robot-hugs.com\/words\" target=\"_blank\">New comic! (link)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s just a word\u2019 is a fairly common protest when I point out problematic language. It\u2019s frustrating, because the truth is that language, power, society, and structural discrimination are deeply entwined. As someone who has studied linguistics and social information practices, I can absolutely speak to the fact that language is a powerful and insidious tool for keeping people down, whether it\u2019s hissed at you by a passerby on the street, or spray-painted on your house, or used jokingly by your peers, or used to describe you in legislation, the language that describes and defines us has consequences that ripple through our lives, right down to our bones.<\/p>\n<p>The flip side of this is that when you\u2019re aware of the power of words, it becomes important to be able to take control of that power by self defining and reclaiming language. People get weirdly upset at \u2018made up words\u2019 for gender and sexual orientation without understanding the history of criminalizaing, pathologizing, misinterpretation, and discrimination that the &lsquo;normal\u2019 words carry. \u00a0We are aware of this power, and we\u2019re using the power of language to self-identify. Apparently that\u2019s very threatening. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cit\u2019s only a word\u201d \u00a0&#8211; so, it won\u2019t be a big deal for you to stop using it, right? Right?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>robothugscomic: New comic! (link) \u2018It\u2019s just a word\u2019 is a fairly common protest when I point out problematic language. It\u2019s frustrating, because the truth is that language, power, society, and structural discrimination are deeply entwined. As someone who has studied linguistics and social information practices, I can absolutely speak to the fact that language is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/31\/robothugscomic-new-comic-link-its-just-a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1783,4,1530],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129154,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129149\/revisions\/129154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}