# Fighting misogyny - but "cunt" and "bitch" are still okay words **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 14, 2020, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fighting-misogyny-but-cunt-and-bitch-are-still-okay-words/853769 "2020-05-14T04:16:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 24
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fighting-misogyny-but-cunt-and-bitch-are-still-okay-words/853769/24 "2020-05-14T19:57:52Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > And while “kike” and “nigger” are highly offensive in their own right for very good reasons, aren’t they qualitatively different from, “bitch” and “harpy”? And I’m not talking about a 1-10 scale on the insult-o-meter. Not being a female person, I’m relying on what women in my life have told me about the word “cunt”. Here’s what I said in the Pit thread I’ve cited in my OP: > [@Fuck You, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-las-vegas-mayor-carolyn-goodman/852395/71): > > I think this is where we disagree. A man calling a woman a bitch or a cunt is expressing hatred, whether they mean to or not. That’s my understanding from talking to women who have discussed it with me - that extreme sexism bordering on hate is built into those terms, based on the way they have had those epithets thrown at them over their lives. So, just like I pay close attention when a non-white person tells me, a white person, that they’ve experienced discrimination, I pay close attention when women in my lives give this explanation about that particular word. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fighting-misogyny-but-cunt-and-bitch-are-still-okay-words/853769)._