2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton's Internet Supporters Desperately Want This Campaign to be about Sexism [View all]ljm2002
(10,751 posts)...I never said that she called for that to happen to him. What I SAID was that she LAUGHED about it when something like that ACTUALLY HAPPENED. When you have video evidence of something like that, it is IMO pretty hard to then turn around and say how horrible it is that someone lobbed a commonly-used violent metaphor in their direction.
Again: "Go fuck yourself with a (whatever)" is a very common expression in this day and age. I find it surprising that you do not know this. I've heard it (with various whatevers) in many contexts, and no, it is not misogynistic just because it is lobbed at a woman.
And again: It is crude language that I, myself, would not have used nor do I particularly like it. But really, the phrase just doesn't pack much of a punch to me (which, btw, is also a violent metaphor -- so should I be careful where I use that one too?).
Anyway, hand-wringing over a common metaphor when the person you are defending has laughed at a similar thing IN REAL LIFE is, how to put it, beyond ridiculous.
TTFN