Historically (and still today) women have found themselves silenced in all kinds of ways, from explicit discrimination to the self-doubt and self-censorship discrimination can teach. So let’s be clear at the outset; this lesson is not about feeling ashamed of “upspeak” or silencing yourself if you’re an upspeaker. Upspeak—the habit of upward-inflecting the ends of statements so that they sound like questions—is both generational and, it seems, an outgrowth of women’s social tendency to se...