A Female Senator Explains Why Uptalk Is Part of Women's 'Nature'
Yet Kirsten Gillibrand says women also need to learn that it's okay to be aggressive.
Even before Cher Horowitz of Clueless shopped her way into the world in 1995, cultural commentators spent a lot of energy fretting about uptalk. You know, uptalk? That oft-mocked conversational style, usually attributed to the "Valley Girl"? The one that implies a question mark at the end of otherwise perfectly declarative statements?
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