Misogynistic language....

[prairierose]

228. Sorry, but that word...the c word and others...

actually are misogynistic. There really is no argument. It is not a word used for endearment, it is a word that is used to cause hurt or belittle. There is no argument about that except from people who are misogynists or have not paid attention to the discussion we(as a culture) have been having about that word for over 50 years.

Go ahead and try to make less of the use of that word. Go ahead and try to say people who get upset by its use are " just too sensitive&quot another method of telling women to shut up) or are "word police". Yup, I'll take that title because after 50 years of argument, I am tired of the people who argue against its use. People who do not seem to understand that words have power and that the use of any word that marginalizes or diminishes or demeans any group of people, is language that hurts everyone. When any group of people is pushed down, stepped on or swept to the side, it hurts everyone.

By telling someone that they can not know what the person was thinking when they said that (or typed it), you are telling that person, they should just "get over it". Stop being so sensitive, stop being such a girl, stop being over emotional, because you know that women are over emotional.. These are all shortcuts for putting women in their place. They are all shortcuts that women recognize. So when you use any of these shortcuts, you may be saying more than you know but what you are saying is misogynistic. And I do not have to be ab le to read minds to know what the use of the c-word means. Just as I do not need to be a mind reader to know what the n-word means. As words become un-usable in a more enlightened society, new words take their place but the underlying meaning remains the same, a means to marginalize that part of society that the speaker feels is not worthy of consideration or courtesy.

Go ahead and argue.