Why I am so grateful for the DU

[SuperCoder]

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by Omaha Steve (a host of the The DU Lounge forum).

After a quick, updated conversation with my dad where I had to threaten to terminate contact if he ever involved me in antivaxx propaganda again (he's fine...only had covid for 2 days and his bitch wife still has it...surprise) but tried to interject that you can still get it even though you're vaccinated. Also changed the story that the bitch wife has just a cough when I asked how they're doing.

Thank you all for being democratic, always being on the side of fact and justice, and being all around awesome people. I am so f*cking glad I don't have to live with that dirtbag.

The new war against the evil Trump (Hitler) anti-vaxx Nazis is just beginning. These f*cking cockroaches are in overdrive since Trump (Hitler) was arrested and announced he is running again.

[Lunabell]

1. So, your step mother is a dog?

Is that legal?

[BigmanPigman]

3. Huh?

What does that mean?

[Lunabell]

5. bitch

: the female of the dog or some other carnivorous mammals

informal + offensive —used as a generalized term of abuse and disparagement for a woman

[Croney]

17. Rather than ignore this exchange, I have decided to say

that I sympathize with what you are saying, although I can be heard calling someone a bitch once in a while. I think the difference is calling one woman a bitch vs. declaring that all women are bitches, which of course no one is saying.

What I'm wondering is if there are words you would use instead of bitch, when name-calling a person you don't like. I can think of gender-neutral ones like asshole, and male-specific ones like prick and dickhead.

I usually just call somebody a jerk.

[BigmanPigman]

11. I call people bitch all the time on DU and in my life

and I am a female. It is a very common noun used by millions of people every day, by women, men, any race and religion. If a woman is calling a man an " asshole" or a "dick" a philogynistic?

It is a commonly used word by zillions of people who are definitely NOT misogynistic.

[Lunabell]

12. It is.

And I feel sad that another woman doesn't see it. Really sad for you.

[BigmanPigman]

13. Don't feel sad for me since I don't care

Whether you do or not. No thoughts and prayers for me either.

[Lunabell]

14. hmm, if she were black would you be ok with

My dad's n-word wife? Same difference.

Sorry for using the n-word, even without spelling it out.

[dembotoz]

21. sometime folks are just factual

get over it

[ariadne0614]

18. Yes, but. . .

Just yesterday, I was pondering the contrast between the generalized use/tolerance of racist vs. sexist slurs. Over time, racist ones have become unacceptable in civilized society (thank goodness), while sexism remains deeply imbedded, even on DU.

Normalized misogyny is still misogyny. The fact that we have all been relentlessly conditioned to accept gendered insults doesn’t soften the impact once awareness settles in. Call me “woke,” I suppose.

[Frasier Balzov]

4. Let the love in!

Your moment is brief. Eternity bookends this moment.

[SuperCoder]

6. The DU is certainly a safe space

Against QAnon right wing extremists.

Thank you for allowing me to vent against it in my own family.

[Lunabell]

7. You can vent without the misogyny.

Have you read the TOS?

[SuperCoder]

8. It is not misogynistic

To call my stepmother what I did when she's been manipulating my dad since the beginning, hovering over his conversations with me, and policing all of them for no reason.

And you know what? I have zero regrets about saying it.

I never said this against all women. I love women. I simply called a person in my life I hate a name and called out Trumpism for how damaging it is. That is not misogynistic and not against the DU TOS.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

10. We're with you SC... can definitely relate.

[SuperCoder]

15. Thank you, InAbLuEsTaTe. :)

[Rhiannon12866]

16. I am so sorry, too - and I'm also glad that you found this safe space

I have run across a couple of people who were suspicious of the vaccine, but I was fortunate to be able to ignore them - or give them a wide berth. My friend and I used to go to a local meeting which was run by a woman who was anti vaxx and anti mask, she got into an argument with another woman about it, so we just stopped going.

And some of these people really are deluded - early on I was having a conversation with a couple of people about when and where we managed to get vaccinated when an older gentleman overheard us and said that his daughter, who is a nurse at the local hospital, would quit her job if she had to get vaccinated - turned out that later on the hospital dismissed anyone who worked there who refused. And this same gentleman added that his granddaughters weren't getting vaccinated, either, in case they wanted to have children someday! He really said that.

So the crazies are out there, we're glad that you found us.

[Timeflyer]

19. Hey, the woman was endangering your dad's life--it's ok, glad you're here.

Attacks on family members can make you forget the nice.

[Aristus]

20. As a medical provider, I have a deep loathing and contempt for all anti-vaxxers.

I wish they would all go to Hell and infect the assholes already down there, and leave those of us up here alone.

[Omaha Steve]

22. After a review by forum hosts, locking........

Can be posted in GD.

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