argue with someone this weekend about the gendered implications of "hustle"!!

Love you some linguistics for the holiday weekend? Here’s a pair worth your time:

The Lost History of The Booty Call, from Esquire, because of course.

The Best Revenge Is Your Paper: Notes on Women’s Work, which parses the use of “hustle,” dives into some deep post-hype Lemonade analysis, and the gender politics of emotional labor.

Fave graf:

“This is the real problem with women dreaming big and hustling hard, with Beyoncé grinding from Monday to Friday and working Friday to Sunday: it’s not fair. Weigel encourages us to abandon sentimentality, and to acknowledge that emotions are labor, relationships have always been work, and love and money are intertwined. But the burden of emotional labor must not all fall on women.”

(While we’re at it, why the f is dating so much work??)

Oh and also, live action Tarzan comes out today!!! I hear rumors that Phil Collins did not score the music for this one but refuse to believe them. Here, BuzzFeed reviews why the animated OG was so thirsty/great.

Have a links-filled Fourth of July! (And sorry for the unexpected hiatus this week — strep throat / surprise Hamilton tickets will getcha every time.)