Is "douchebag" a sexist term when used as an insult?

[TygrBright]

44. Well, the same thing could be said of the use of "pussy" as an insult. Or "bitch."

I doubt anyone who refers to a guy as being a "pussy" is thinking "yep, dude, you really resemble female external genitalia."

And I'm not sure that anyone who uses "bitch" as an insult is thinking "damn, you are gonna be SCATHED by me referring to you as a female dog!"

So whether or not an insult retains its original connotation in the mind of the insulter is sort of irrelevant. It's the context of what it's come to represent, and whether that context associates something with female as being insulting particularly to a male, that may make it sexist.

I'm not arguing that in this case, it DOES, just wondering how others see it.

But the original connotation of a word being used for an insult isn't really linguistically relevant to its current connotation as an insult.

philologically,
Bright