{"id":16322,"date":"2013-12-05T14:43:29","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T10:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=16322"},"modified":"2013-12-05T14:43:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T10:43:29","slug":"the-power-of-a-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2013\/12\/05\/the-power-of-a-word\/","title":{"rendered":"The power of a word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Gr. 11 Language and Literature students move on to the topic of language and gender we will be looking at how the use of certain words affects a culture&#8217;s perception of a gender, how the identities of men, women, girls and boys are restricted by stereotypes perpetuated by the written and visual tests that surround us.  We&#8217;ve already watched Joss Whedon&#8217;s speech at the Equality Now fundraising dinner. His message and delivery are completely aligned with this course&#8217;s objectives. Check it out : http:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/a-room-full-of-feminists-just-applauded-a-guy-who-attacked-feminists-wait-for-it-re2-7a?c=ufb1<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131205-144310.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131205-144310.jpg\" alt=\"20131205-144310.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Gr. 11 Language and Literature students move on to the topic of language and gender we will be looking at how the use of certain words affects a culture&#8217;s perception of a gender, how the identities of men, women, girls and boys are restricted by stereotypes perpetuated by the written and visual tests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":16318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grade-11","category-secondary-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}