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Do You Recognize 'Woman At A Meeting' Speak?

It isn’t fair, but it is a reality.

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Dave, if I could, I could just — I just really feel like if we had liberty it would be terrific, and the alternative would just be awful, you know? That’s just how it strikes me. I don’t know.

— Alexandra Petri, in a biting article for the Washington Post, translating American attorney Patrick Henry’s famous quote, ‘Give me liberty or give me death,’ into ‘woman at a meeting’ speak. Petri explains how women learn to equivocate, apologize, and couch everything in vague language in order to avoid seeming bitchy or offensive. It isn’t fair, but it is a reality too many women are familiar with.

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