http://www.bigfatwhale.com/archives/bfw_375.htm

Thanks Alex.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=663

Telling? About the vocal style, definitely. Which brings us right back to the question of “Does how you talk reflect how you think?” Where is Carl Jung when we need him, eh?

I think a man could imagine and understand the implications of such a burden (literally). But, it’s the psychological ramifications of physiological transformation. The hormonal havoc that comes with ovulation is already too insufferable for some women. While it comes once every few weeks every month for decades, each occurrence is usually no more than a week.

The gestation period, however, one set of hormonal chaos, physical change, and mental vulnerability traded in for another. Nine months without having to make a trip down the feminine hygiene aisle is certainly conceptually attractive, but you’re still prisoner of or at the mercy of your own body’s demands (which also become your unborn child’s demands).

And then after the birthing process, the mother hardly has time to regain that control again over her body physically and mentally—she now has to think only about the livelihood of her descendant . I wonder if new mothers ever look in the mirror and either don’t recognize who they see (figuratively or literally), or if they experience a moment of life-flashing-before-the-eyes. A self-aware….”I’m a mother” akin to “I’m 50 years old now” or “I’m finally 18.”

I see they are playing on the six degrees of separation tactic (or is that strategy?)… good for them.

As for Palin’s box, I’m glad someone spotted that. When I re-read the post after publishing it, that was my first thought. Sorry about that.

by the way, this ad campaign–reverse psychology–is it effective?