"It's Constitutional. Bitches." - Patrick Gaspard, the Executive Director of the DNC

[Zorra]

46. But...wouldn't "It's Constitutional, Limp Dicks!" be far more appropriate?

Or some other sexist slur that refers to males?

Instead of referring to RWers with a nasty word that literally means female dog, but which is commonly used as a generalized misogynistic slur to insult and denigrate women, a slur that infers numerous derogatory connotations primarily targeting women, why not use a male slur to refer to RWers, if it is so imperative for us to use gender based slurs?

It's just not logical.

After all, a very substantial majority of right wingers are male.
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Out of 435 members of the House, I believe that just 17 are Republican women. Of 100 sitting senators, I think just four are Republican women.

The Republican Party in 2011 looks similar, demographically and ideologically, to the Republican Party that nominated John McCain in 2008. As a group, Republicans continue to be more likely than average to be male, white, married, and religious, and to describe their political views as "conservative.

(Hmmm. I wonder if this is because it is considered a much greater insult to most men to be referred to with a disgusting slur that refers to something inherently female rather than being referred to with a disgusting slur that infers a powerless, weak, and feeble male?)

The word *bitch* is not gender neutral, no matter how the justification spin gets spun. A rose by any other name is still a rose.

Since the slur was aimed at the right, wouldn't a slur such as *Limp Dicks*, or some other slur specifically referring to males, be much more appropriate?

Actually, I don't believe in using gender based slurs at all, and don't use them, and think that maybe an insult like "It's Constitutional, Losers" would have been as just as effective and much more appropriate than any type of group based slur.

I used the slurs *limp dick* and "bitch" in the context of this post for effect in order to help illustrate institutionalized sexism and sexist language.

(Some of this post was satire and
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"Misogyny. It is what it is. And it's still misogyny when you do it, Adam" - Eve, circa 10,000,000 BC