IF SOMEONE CALLS YOU A #BITCH, THANK THEM / by ELIF SHAFAK

In this episode, Elif Shafak is focusing on the word #BITCH: Why do you need to thank people if they call so?

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Say Your Word is a digital platform by the acclaimed novelist, storyteller and women’s rights activist Elif Shafak.
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Language is the key to understanding and unlocking our world.
It is also the key to the human heart.

Words are often said to have power.
What is not said that often is that they can hurt and even spread hatred and hostility, just like they can heal and bring about love, empathy and wisdom.
They can divide, distance and "dehumanise", just like they can connect and “rehumanise" those who have been dehumanised.

East and West, North and South, regardless of race, sex, gender, colour, religion, ethnicity, nationality or any other category, we are all made of stories.
Stories bring us together, untold stories keep us apart.

Today's word is BITCH.

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[ebrusunver]

I could listen to you for hours!! Thank you!💙

[ivonnevivas]

Please keep going with your channel, your talks, your words. You are incredible and your stories are fascinating

[sriyellampally]

I am literally obsessed with you. Thankyou for your work, thankyou for being you

[zakiahaidari]

Elif shafak, you are the best ... the loving writer, greatest, kind, smart, talented, and an incredible strong women, I love you, I love your books, I love the way you talk ....
amazing character you are .. stay bless !

Thank you for everything!

[fahmidamiah]

In the words/song of Alanis Morissette:
"I'm a bitch, I'm a lover
I'm a child, I'm a mother
I'm a sinner, I'm a saint
I do not feel ashamed"

[nihalsuliman]

Thank you so much for this up lifting talk,
In Arabic literature we have old peom said: "word is light, but some words become graves(according to the way speaker say them), it also said that word is the (sharaf) honour of mankind,
Your words madam Elif are (Noor)=light.
Thank u

[srijitabhattacharya]

Could listen to you forever. Thank you for what you do. ❤️

[melopro]

Escuchar lo que dices sobre las palabras me recordó a una entrevista de la periodista española Rosa María Calaf donde dijo que las palabras nunca son inocentes. Me gusta tu canal. Me parece necesario para estos tiempos. Vi todos los vídeos de un tirón. Gracias por compartir.

[johnjohn]

This is so cool! Your one of my favourite channels, keep up the good work ❤️❤️❤️!

[shahzadfarziin]

one of my favorite novelist!!!
thank you very very much for your novels

[thebraintrainer_]

Wow this was amazing and powerful ❤❤ thank u so much for sharing ur perspective on this word 😊😊

[baarishwalia]

Hello mam ... Am just love with your novel Black Milk: on motherhood and writing. Your thoughts are You are in our syllabus mam so thanks to our university to make you to known to us. ❤

[Ratajit]

Even in Thai language, this vid is also true. There are many words used to discriminate against women.

[mw]

I like that. Turn a negative into a positive.

[igorknown]

You're incredible 💚 thank you for your words!!!

[Moola]

WOW that was a hole new thing for me and I just thought that the word b**** just ment female dog but no 😮 that really help me . Thank you

[catginger]

You can thank them for letting you know who they really are and never go back.

[jenniferirwin]

Just my zodiac sign is a dog, doesn’t mean I am one. I’m a really nice person.

[ceydaerenkol]

I know you are trying to tell us fight back by embracing our inner bitch. But my argument is why we have to use same terminology with ignorant people in sake of being relevant or trying not to be hurt . I feel like I have to beautify my garden with poisonous plants as if it’s all I have. I prefer to use my own words to make peace with my inner self. Thank you for your approach though. I love the idea.

[jonhinson]

It would seem the greatest insult men hurl at one another is to call into question one's manhood and the most convenient way to accomplish this is to suggest that a man is gay. And gay is still associated with the lesser. It is far more acceptable to be gay if you are a woman. Sensitivity is seen as a weakness in men.The truth is that sensitivity is not the province of any gender or orientation but many think the opposite.