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Damned Either Way: What Robin Lakoff Discovered About Women’s Language
“Stop hedging,” a manager says, in the kind of feedback session that gets called constructive, “and just tell me what you think.” He isn’t asking her to clarify her level of confidence in the recommendation. What he actually means here: stop giving yourself an exit. Commit. Say it like you mean it.That’s the workplace definition of hedging, and almost everyone in professional life is using it, I’ve heard it a thousand times: skirting the question without really answering, refusing to land on an answer when you’re unsure, protecting yourself from being wrong by never quite saying anything…
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