Calling a woman a skank, tramp, bitch, whore, stripper is still misogyny

[meadowlander]

184. It's not a waste of time for two reasons.

1. When we treat other groups with disrespect they feel unwelcome in our party. If we want to beat the Republicans in 2018, we need women and the LGBTQ community and racial minorities to feel that they are respected and valued in the Democratic party. I do not feel respected and welcome in a community where it is acceptable to slut shame people or use misogynistic or racist or homophobic slurs just because you don't like what they say or believe. This isn't "being a special snowflake". It is having self-respect and expecting basic respect and civility from others.

2. When we sink to their level, we become hypocrites and we lose the ability to effectively critique them the next time they try it. In fact, the Republicans will be emboldened by our use of the same slurs and will push the envelope out even further while saying "how can you criticize me when you do the same thing?"

I guarantee Kellyanne Conway doesn't give a flying fuck if you think she's a slut. So calling her that isn't "winning the war" or "fighting back" against the Republicans. The only thing it accomplishes is to alienate women and minorities and to make us all look like hypocrites when we don't call people out on it. Which is what is wasting our time. Because seriously, how depressing is it that we are still having this conversation about fairly basic principles of respect for women sixty years after the womens' liberation movement kicked off?