“[Janet] Holmes’s numbers demonstrated that the total number of you knows collected were almost identical between genders, but women used the phrase with a flat pitch, communicating confidence, over 20 percent more than men. And yet, most people don’t hear it that way – at the first sign of a woman hedging, they automatically assume insecurity.” LanguageFeminismConfidenceSociolinguisticsYou Know Book:Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language Source: Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language