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In reply to the discussion: I've been gone a few days swamped at work and this is what I come back to? [View all]Liquorice
(2,066 posts)sexist language. You could easily say that a white person wasn't thinking racist thoughts when he called a black person an n. The thoughts of the white person who called the name are irrelevant. What matters is how the black person feels about it. And it's the same with the c word. It doesn't matter whether women use the word or not either. That is completely irrelevant to whether it's sexist for a man to call a woman a c.
And your other argument about Bob McDonnell is just crazy. You're basically saying if a sexist like Bob doesn't say the c word, that means the c word isn't sexist. Come on. It's pretty obvious who need the lesson on sexism, and it's not me.
If you can't accept that a woman says it's sexist for you to call her a c, then there's really nothing more to say. Continue calling women c's all you want. You have a right to free speech, and I have a right to judge that speech and the person using it as sexist. And I have nothing further to say to someone like that because it's not worth my time.