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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I've never actually bothered to find out what that book was actually trying to claim, so I had a bit of a lol at the description of that episode:

In 1992 a yoga instructor with a distance-learning PhD had the courage to ask: "Are women not getting help around the house because they're using the wrong modal verb?"