Message aside, I was kind of distracted by the prose and reasoning in this article, which seemed unusually simpleminded. I plugged some of the text into a readability analyzer. 6th grade reading level, maybe.https://twitter.com/Toni_Airaksinen/status/1012927048598327296 …
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Hm, never heard of The Lily, maybe it's a high school newspaper? "A product of The Washington Post, The Lily of today is a place for the curious minded and for those who want to be heard." Oh. That's a weirdly roundabout way of saying "for girls".https://www.thelily.com/about/
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Went back to the readability analyzer. That mission statement is at a 4th grade reading level, give or take. For comparison, I looked at some passages from WaPo's front page, which checked out around 8th. I don't really have a point, I guess, it's just depressing.
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Many writing guides recommend short phrases and short words and that lowers the score a lot.
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There's a difference between simplicity and children's lit
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Tension between the reading level for "smart" "curious" women in this frippery and the reading level in their regular serious news. "smart" "curious" women are apparently not too bright.
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They are literally writing against patriarchy in a way that trivializes their audience. It's some kind of irony.
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