Amanda Montell

American · 21st century

American writer and linguist whose Wordslut (2019) examines how the English language encodes gender, including the vocabulary reserved for assertive women.

Connection to Taylor Swift

Offered by a community reader against the episode's discussion of the words used for assertive women and Taylor's observation that a man is called strategic where a woman is called calculating.

Notable Works

• Wordslut; Cultish