Sigh.
“I’m glad ____________ isn’t around to see this” is a common expression and does not translate to “I’m glad ____________ died young.”
So yes, just you.
Okay, I’m not glad my dad’s dead, but she’s glad hers is. Got it.
ETA: AOC’s words, and sentences, have meanings. Just like Yoho’s do.
We could discuss Slacker’s misinterpretation, but I’d rather talk about AOC, because what she said is way more interesting. Maybe let Slacker’s tangent drop?
It’s a great speech, and one more sign that she’s a brilliant politician. I hope that some folks heard it and maybe pause before being misogynist assholes in quite the same way next time.
Only to ensure that the wrong people don’t overhear.
Yeah, she wasn’t talking about you.
It’s not a misinterpretation. It’s the literal meaning of her words:
“It’s a good thing my dad’s dead, because if he were alive, he would have heard this asshole call me a ‘fucking bitch’, and that’s clearly worse than his being dead and therefore not hearing it.” There is no other way to interpret what she said. The fact that other people have said similar things in the past does not make it any better, any more than it makes Yoho’s “I have a wife and daughters” schtick better that many other clowns have said the same thing ad nauseam.
Right. You got me. I’m totallly happy my grandfather’s dead, simply because I’m glad I know exactly how he’d feel about Trump and the state of the country right now.
That isn’t just a figure of speech, I’m really, really joyful about it. 
(Surely you know the meaning of “figure of speech”?)
Surely you know that figures of speech can be hurtful? If my wife died and my daughter (in, say, 2034 when she’ll be AOC’s age) said something like this on national TV, I’d be appalled.
ETA: This was presumably a pre-written speech. She or someone on her staff should have caught this. Or if it was off the cuff, she should have said “wait, that came out wrong…what I mean is” etc. Or released something on Twitter later, at least.
You are minimizing the offensiveness of his attack by labeling it as ‘prudish’. None of it’s offense is because it is sexual-in fact there is no sexual content (‘fucking’ here is for shock value and emphasis). It is offensive that he assumed he could demean and devalue her because she was a woman. Misogyny is malignant bigotry by another name. It, BTW, is also a form of systemic and institutionalized bigotry, but let’s not hijack the thread.
I thought that was ‘doctor, lawyer, CPA’?
No, it’s “person, woman, man, camera, tv.”
You are not her. You are not her mother. You do not even know if your take on the hurtfulness of the expression is the norm. Your appallment (or whatever the nominal term) is yours.
I’m not labeling his attack as prudish, I’m saying the media is running around crying “He said a bad word”. This was a story about the relationship of poverty and unemployment to rising crime rates but apparently that’s not really important to anybody.
Kinda have to wonder how many posts she’d throw up if she manages to get a good nap!
There was no gaffe to catch-you are pretty much alone on this one…unless this was glommed off of some right wing website that creates fake crises like this one.
As eenerms says…”sigh”.
Oh, and for certain, applauding someone doing/saying what needed to be is not some grand act of allyship. It just is applauding someone doing/saying what needed to be.
But when someone tells you she’s tired and that’s not enough and that we sound like we’re patting ourselves on the back, just listen.
OK, sure, THAT much is true – the media focus in many cases has been salacious, treating the profane misogynistic expression as if it were merely a matter of some sort of classroom conduct code violation, rather than on what that says about the environment and frame of mind from which Yoho was coming when he “went there” in his rage fit.
It’s a very common idiom. Taking it literally as if it were not an idiom is indeed a misinterpretation.
It wouldn’t make it OK if he had been.
Calling women misogynist names when you think only men can hear you is no better than calling black people racist names if you think only white people can hear you. If a public representative is in the habit of doing so, the press ought to let their constituents know about it.
The few times I’ve heard AOC she has seemed very well spoken. She’s an attractive politician. But it’s sad she had to make this speech at all. I’m not a huge fan of identity politics and find the progressive agenda plus-minus. She put him in his place. I’m glad of that, I guess. But it’s far short of a brilliant speech, like the Gettysburg Address or a Churchill morale booster.