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Warpy

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6. It's because patriarchy has supplied it with so few male pejoratives
Tue Sep 26, 2017, 03:56 PM
Sep 2017

Saying his mother came from a kennel is saying he's a dog, himself, or the product of bestiality with a dog. It has nothing to do with a living woman. You might want to look some of this stuff up.

Perhaps you'll have better luck expunging the English language of all perjoratives and have better success with it than we had getting rid of the "n word" and other hard fighting racist pejoratives. I doubt it.

Unless you want a life of utter frustration as you pursue linguistic purity, I suggest you find another windmill to tilt at.

You have read Cervantes, right?

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