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In reply to the discussion: Calling a woman a skank, tramp, bitch, whore, stripper is still misogyny [View all]CountAllVotes
(22,207 posts)150. No kidding
Its ok for der fuhrer to say things like "let's bomb the shit out of them", etc. ad infinitum.
She bought this package and owns it.
No difference between the mindsets involved.
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Nope- misogyny is bigotry and against the TOS. We had enough this past year, thanks.
bettyellen
Mar 2017
#13
Agreed. The only name any of them need to be called are liar and fascist, these are correct.
Eliot Rosewater
Mar 2017
#152
"possesing a vagina prohibits you from calling her certain names regardless of how accurate"
JTFrog
Mar 2017
#106
Last year, some here considered Hillary "the enemy," and called her the C-word. Nuh-uh.
Hekate
Mar 2017
#168
That double standard exists because women can get sex much more easily than a man can.
liquid diamond
Mar 2017
#181
No. Language that derives its power from slut shaming makes our culture more misogynistic.
femmedem
Mar 2017
#90
If you can't come up with a better reason to dislike someone of the opposing political persuation,
hughee99
Mar 2017
#190
Of course it is - but it seems much more fun to pile on people we don't like, even women.
jmg257
Mar 2017
#5
Under what circumstances is it appropriate to call a woman a skank or a tramp?
meadowlander
Mar 2017
#22
ah, there it is. "that person is an asshole, therefore i have every right to be an asshole too"
frankieallen
Mar 2017
#131
You should look up the last three words for the, um, solitary aspect of their meanings.
Demit
Mar 2017
#100
None of those is making a moral judgment on the man- they equal "jerk" ....
bettyellen
Mar 2017
#136
Wow- I'm surprised you're so emotionally invested in this man and wife's personal decisions...
bettyellen
Mar 2017
#78
Sure you are - sharing what you imagine to be the story of their private lives with strangers and
bettyellen
Mar 2017
#114
Neither you nor I knows what goes on between those two people or how they really feel about it.
bettyellen
Mar 2017
#121
Nope - peering into the private lives of consenting adults and judging is not progressive -
bettyellen
Mar 2017
#149
She has plenty of opinions about others and has expressed them in this thread.
mnhtnbb
Mar 2017
#186
Or they like sex enough to be happy with their situation- whatever it looks like to you?
bettyellen
Mar 2017
#115
Progressives don't judge consenting adults or use a woman's sexuality to shame her...period.
bettyellen
Mar 2017
#35
This is no better than anyone judging Hillary for staying in her marriage... these things
bettyellen
Mar 2017
#69
so what if a non-white person acts very badly? do they "deserve" the N-word? the correlation is
TheFrenchRazor
Mar 2017
#175
Nope. Just that it's a gendered slur when applied inaccurately to people not in the profession
bettyellen
Mar 2017
#134
Are you serious that you would want to describe behavior by using similar slurs against women?
Squinch
Mar 2017
#135
It's not "common sense" its denigration of a woman's sexuality and misogynistic
bettyellen
Mar 2017
#30
Couchgate isn't about what she did ... it's about the hypocrisy of the right wing
SFnomad
Mar 2017
#31
Puhlease, I got a post hidden for linking to a poster's well documented transphobic history on DU.
demmiblue
Mar 2017
#48
It's probably the mildest gender slur- and like all slurs "in group usage" doesn't have the same
bettyellen
Mar 2017
#120
A couple factual points: One, DU has been fighting over the word "bitch" since at least 2004.
Warren DeMontague
Mar 2017
#140
Here's my take, and I am fully aware that my opinions are not some universal truth any more than
Warren DeMontague
Mar 2017
#183
Maybe. Like I said, pretty much every argument that could be had on the word "bitch", was run
Warren DeMontague
Mar 2017
#193
I don't use the terms myself, although I've been known to yell a certain word at her when she
Vinca
Mar 2017
#81
Agreed! Anybody who's ever been in the military knows how easy and corrosive dehumanizing is.
NWCorona
Mar 2017
#112
Dehumanizing is a good point! Have been disturbed to hear DT refer to him as as "what voted" or ...
bettyellen
Mar 2017
#118
Yes and the bulk of those who make excuses for slurs decamped here for JPR where no word is
bettyellen
Mar 2017
#158
Yep! Look at the people on this thread judging other women for relationships and slurring them...
bettyellen
Mar 2017
#157
It's the same as judging HRC's marriage and that was just as disturbing because when you look at the
bettyellen
Mar 2017
#162
you are of course correct, but principles are "relative" to many here. nt
TheFrenchRazor
Mar 2017
#173
I find it interesting that the first post I saw here of Kellyanne on the Oval
rzemanfl
Mar 2017
#176