DU is not the US government (or any other government for that matter)

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

33. +1000.

I saw a number of such demands for 'forbidden vocabulary'.

The reality is, if you use an insult at someone that is based on their inherent properties (or the stereotypes associated with those properties) you're displaying your bigotry. If you use sexual imagery of things stuck inside women's genitals as an insult... you're being misogynistic, no matter what word you're using. If you applaud same, you're applauding misogyny, even if you personally despise the woman in question.

The ironic thing is that today's post from the RP is anti-racism, and quite good. If he would sit back and reflect on misogyny in the same way, and give it the same amount of thought, I doubt he would have written what he did in the post that started the 'tempest'.

And you can certainly object to misogyny without being any kind of 'delicate flower' as so many throwing around childish insults over the last few days have suggested. Misogyny in word adds to the acceptance of misogyny in our culture, and the dismissal of violence against women as being unimportant.