4.11.25: Em Dash

I’ve always loved the em dash—still do, honestly. It’s clean, it’s punchy, and it gives a sentence that perfect little break without being too stiff. But now it’s everywhere, and it kind of sucks that it’s been co-opted as this supposed “sign” of AI writing. Like, no—I’ve been using em dashes since long before chatbots started pretending to be clever. Just because something’s good and widely used doesn’t mean it’s fake. It’s frustrating watching natural style get flagged as artificial just because the tools caught up. Let me keep my punctuation without turning it into some red flag.