"Under American women’s influence, [Henry James] insisted, language risks becoming a ‘generalised mumble or jumble, a tongueless slobber or snarl or whine’; it will sound like ‘the moo of the cow, the bray of the ass, and the bark of the dog’."
On ancient and contemporary reactions to "the public voice of women" in EuroAmerican contexts:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/n06/mary-beard/the-public-voice-of-women
#Asstodon #Commodon
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