#WORDSMATTER
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How we speak about children shapes how they view themselves and interact with others.
This week: belonging, empathy, and the cost of “othering.”

Link: https://bit.ly/3XD1R0X
#belonging #othering #WordsMatter #SelfTalk
December 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
December 4, 2025 at 4:45 AM
People get so upset over words.
I don't even like to say the word "word".
I've been calling it the w-word
but that doesn't really solve the problem.
December 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
December 3, 2025 at 1:23 AM
"Last month, Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade said of people living with mental illness on our streets: “Involuntary lethal injection… Just kill ‘em.”

This is just horrible. We all need to remember that #WordsMatter and also #AllHumansMatter

#Pinks
www.commondreams.org/opinion/how-...
The Words We Use to Describe Homelessness Will Get People Killed | Common Dreams
A huge swath of the political and media spectrum sees a person living on the street as either an aesthetic nuisance or criminal-in-waiting. We should see them for who they are: a person suffering and ...
www.commondreams.org
December 1, 2025 at 11:05 PM
CW: gun violence

"Do you feel like you’ve been changed because of this work?"

Well, since we continue to sanitize the horror of shootings by applying the term to non violent activities,

Including filming bedrooms of shot children,

probably not *enough*

We can do better

#WordsMatter
December 1, 2025 at 10:09 PM
not detaining. Abducting. #WordsMatter
November 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Please, for the sake of an ever loving Christ, PLEASE stop calling them "doughnut holes" (or Tim Bits if you're Canadian)! They AREN'T holes! If anything, they're doughnut anti-holes! #WordsMatter #OCD!
November 29, 2025 at 2:10 AM
You’re absolutely right. #WordsMatter
November 28, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Look for consistency like this when evaluating your news sources.

#WordsMatter
#BMoreGoat
November 27, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Recontextualize gets flagged as unknown by the spellchecker. What?! THAT WORD HAS SOME FUCKING POWER TO IT, AND YOU BETTER ACKNOWLEDGE IT, DAMN YOU, DATABASE OF ACCEPTED WORDS!
#wordsmatter #wordscarrymeaningandyourexpressionwiththem
November 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
And in #wordsmatter. My choice for #wordoftheday #wotd is “TITTLE.” There is literally a word for everything. #HappyThanksgiving #wordnerd post
November 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Words vibrate—and the vibe right now is harsh. The White House rhetoric isn’t accidental. Stay alert. The Persuaders explains a lot. 🔥
#StayAlert #WordsMatter #CutThroughTheNoise #SpeakTruth #fdt
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
HE Threatens Our Sitting Lawmakers With Seditious Behavior And Death...

While He CRITICIZES Our Military Heroes Who Sacrificed Their Lives For Us, "SUCKERS AND LOSERS"!!!
#WordsMatter

November 25, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Words can scar. Clicks can cut.
Verbal & digital violence leave no bruises, yet silence voices & shrink dreams.
Will you scroll past or speak light into the dark?

#SafeSpacesEveryWhere #StopDigitalViolence #WordsMatter
November 25, 2025 at 4:23 AM
HE Threatens Our Sitting Lawmakers With Seditious Behavior And Death...

While He CRITICIZES Our Military Heroes Who Sacrificed Their Lives For Us, "SUCKERS AND LOSERS"!!!
#WordsMatter
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Es ist kein Friedensplan und alleine das Wort ohne Anführungszeichen hier rauszufurzen ist schon bedenklich.

#WordsMatter
November 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Why are we suddenly calling girls “adolescent women”? Euphemisms protect predators. Clear language protects children. Full article on Substack.  #ProtectChildren #CallItAbuse #TruthMatters #LanguageMatters #StopTheEuphemisms #WordsMatter #EpsteinFiles
November 23, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Lukas has best advice… could have written this today but think it was during 45’s administration… #Wordsmatter
November 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
November 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM