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Woman Explains Why Gossiping Was Stigmatized By Men And Many Agree Her Opinion Has Great Points
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Woman Explains Why Gossiping Was Stigmatized By Men And Many Agree Her Opinion Has Great Points

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Lara Lee Kelly, aka Lanthane Radium, is on a quest to dismantle what she calls deeply engrained misogynistic propaganda. One of her latest targets is gossiping.

In an attempt to rehabilitate it, the 20-year-old returned to the roots of the term and its evolution over time, presenting the findings of her research in a two-part TikTok miniseries. As of this publication, her videos have over 4 million and 350 thousand views. Clearly, people are interested.

Continue scrolling to check out Kelly’s take on gossiping and let us know what you think about it in the comments.

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    Recently, TikTok user Lanthane Radium posted a two-part TikTok miniseries on gossiping

    @lanthane_radium#greenscreen follow me here & on insta to unlearn some more stuff the patriarchy has taught us! Pt. 2 is up!♬ original sound – Lara Kelly

    And the videos already have a combined 4.3 million views

    @lanthane_radium#greenscreen Pt. 2! follow me here & on insta to unlearn some more stuff the patriarchy has taught us!♬ original sound – Lara Kelly

    Image credits: Rose-Aimée Bélanger

    According to Art Public Montreal, Rose-Aimée Bélanger’s inspiration comes “from the simple moment of everyday life. In her feminine sculptures, her ’rounds’ as she likes to call them, the expression of the eyes is essential to their understanding and appreciation. The emotions are amplified by the sensuality of the curves.”

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    Les Chuchoteuses is a 2002 bronze sculpture depicting three women, completely absorbed by their conversation. The work was installed as part of an initiative to highlight some of Old Montreal’s forgotten spaces.

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    The earliest known use of this creepy contraption was in Scotland in the 16th-century to punish and humiliate women who were labeled as scolds or nags.

    The Houghton Library at Harvard University claims it “was usually an iron muzzle within an iron framework that would go around the head along with a bridle-bit that would go in the mouth and press down on the tongue- thus effectively silencing the offender.”

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    Though some sources indicate that this was just a punishment for women, the Burgh Records of Scotland’s major towns reveal that the branks were at times used on men as well: “Patrick Pratt sall sit … bound to the croce of this burgh, in the brankis lockit” (1591 Aberd. B Rec. II. 71) / “He shall be put in the branks be the space of xxiiij houres thairafter” (1559 (c 1650) Dundee B. Laws 19.)

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    Image credits: Ben Healy

    As Sophia Gottfried pointed out in TIME, people usually think of gossip as synonymous with malicious rumors, put-downs, or the breathless propagation of a tabloid scoop. Researchers, however, often define it more broadly.

    For example, Megan Robbins, an assistant professor of psychology at The University of California, Riverside, calls it “talking about people who aren’t present.”

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    “It’s something that comes very naturally to us.” Robbins says gossiping is an integral part of conversation, information sharing, and even community building.

    In a 2019 meta-analysis published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, Robbins and her colleague found that, of the 52 minutes a day on average the 467 subjects spent gossiping, three-quarters of that gossip was actually neutral.

    One subject, for instance, spoke about someone who was watching a lot of movies to stay current. “It was kind of boring,” Robbins explains, “not salacious and negative” at all.

    But negative gossip was twice as prevalent as positive. The results also revealed that younger people engage in more negative gossip than older adults.

    Gossip was overwhelmingly about an acquaintance and not a celebrity.

    As you might think, extroverts tend to gossip far more frequently than introverts.

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    Image credits: Anna Sheffer

    Image credits: lanthane_radium

    Here’s what people said after watching the videos

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    Susan Stead
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Gotta say, I disagree with this post. Gossip can have terrible consequences, because it can create and reinforce social stigma and exclusion. There is also nothing on here that says the gossip is always truthful--it isn't. I've suffered consequences in my community, family and place of work because of gossip, a lot of which was absolute fiction. It is destructive, not empowering. And it's not exclusive to women, so let's not turn it into female empowerment.

    albernistuff 4sale
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am with you; calling bullshit on this post. My wife worked in an office about 95% women, and it was a toxic space with gossip and lies making life hell for her and others. She has worked in a number of offices, and not all were bad; just that a few nasty folks can take 'coffee talk' or 'water cooler scuttlebutt' and turn it into 'Mean Girls'. This was in predominantly female work spaces. Where she worked in predominantly male groups, this NEVER occurred.

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    Furious George
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think the main difference that people are ignoring is that, because of the negative connotations, people only ever refer to gossip when it is negative backbiting. When people talk to others and are not cutting other people down or spreading rumors it is called "talking" or perhaps "having a conversation". Language changes over time. Perhaps there was misogyny at the root of the word (like hysterical), but it can now be applied to anyone and will be viewed negatively. At the risk of being downvoted, is the word gossip really something that needs reclaiming?

    Aliquid A
    Community Member
    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wouldn't say people only refer to something as "gossip" if it is negative. If someone were to say "Oh, did you hear that Nancy has a new boyfriend? I head he works down at the hardware store" "you mean Jimmy? Don't his parents own that store? I've heard rumors that the father is constantly yelling at the poor kid" and then the conversation continued like that for a while, it would be considered gossip.

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    Seabeast
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Men gossip just as much as women, if not more. How do I know? Most of my life I've worked in engineering companies where almost all of my coworkers were male.

    Lord of Pastries
    Community Member
    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Engineer here, I totally agree. I work in an office where men are the majority. The men I work with are pretty catty and vicious. This not a women's issue, it's a workplace issue esp with promotions and bonuses are at stake.

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    Susan Stead
    Community Member
    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Gotta say, I disagree with this post. Gossip can have terrible consequences, because it can create and reinforce social stigma and exclusion. There is also nothing on here that says the gossip is always truthful--it isn't. I've suffered consequences in my community, family and place of work because of gossip, a lot of which was absolute fiction. It is destructive, not empowering. And it's not exclusive to women, so let's not turn it into female empowerment.

    albernistuff 4sale
    Community Member
    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am with you; calling bullshit on this post. My wife worked in an office about 95% women, and it was a toxic space with gossip and lies making life hell for her and others. She has worked in a number of offices, and not all were bad; just that a few nasty folks can take 'coffee talk' or 'water cooler scuttlebutt' and turn it into 'Mean Girls'. This was in predominantly female work spaces. Where she worked in predominantly male groups, this NEVER occurred.

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    Furious George
    Community Member
    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think the main difference that people are ignoring is that, because of the negative connotations, people only ever refer to gossip when it is negative backbiting. When people talk to others and are not cutting other people down or spreading rumors it is called "talking" or perhaps "having a conversation". Language changes over time. Perhaps there was misogyny at the root of the word (like hysterical), but it can now be applied to anyone and will be viewed negatively. At the risk of being downvoted, is the word gossip really something that needs reclaiming?

    Aliquid A
    Community Member
    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wouldn't say people only refer to something as "gossip" if it is negative. If someone were to say "Oh, did you hear that Nancy has a new boyfriend? I head he works down at the hardware store" "you mean Jimmy? Don't his parents own that store? I've heard rumors that the father is constantly yelling at the poor kid" and then the conversation continued like that for a while, it would be considered gossip.

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    Seabeast
    Community Member
    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Men gossip just as much as women, if not more. How do I know? Most of my life I've worked in engineering companies where almost all of my coworkers were male.

    Lord of Pastries
    Community Member
    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Engineer here, I totally agree. I work in an office where men are the majority. The men I work with are pretty catty and vicious. This not a women's issue, it's a workplace issue esp with promotions and bonuses are at stake.

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