Can Anyone Think of Any Reason to Marry Rush Limbaugh...

[MineralMan]

51. I needn't do that. It is one of the possible reasons,

as people have speculated here. Not one person present can say for sure why she married that loathsome toad of a man. The speculation is about an individual, not a class. No proof is required. It is speculation, based on something that is a fact in some cases. So, it's legitimate and not sexist. To be sexist it would have to be a general statement. It is not such a statement.

I don't have to prove anything. I'm arguing based on pure logic.

Now, if the poster said something like, "The only reason any woman would marry a rich man is for the money," that would be a sexist statement, and I would object to it as sexism. To say, however, "This woman married that loathsome piece of shit for his money," is a judgment that no person could possibly love such a man or marry him for any other reason. One person is being discussed. Since some women do, in fact, marry men for money, it is not sexism to suggest that a particular woman did so in this case.

The difference is in the reference to one, rather than a class.