Yes, but, that is not the point.
After hundreds of years of whit men running and controlling everything and suppressing/ oppressing everyone else, it’s probably going to take a few (2 or 3) decades of taking things in the other direction to correct things. If it is still like this in 20 years, then, go ahead, complain. up until then it looks… immature and impatient.
Now you’ve gone of the rails, just when I was agreeing with you. Who is being oppressed, in America, in 2016?
No one.
Some people are at a disadvantage. No one is being oppressed. But up until the 1990’s women and blacks and other minorities did face much larger discrimination and derogatory treatment in the work place than they do now, in 2016. And even in 2016 it still happens at times.
Political Correctness has only reached full strength within the last, lets say, 10 years. Before that it was growing in force but not as strong as it is now. Hence, 20 or 30 years, including the past decade, to correct 100’s of years of bad habits and attitudes.
Nope, ‘dick’ has nothing like the same connotation. Even when considered purely in a sexual sense, the penis and the man it is attached to have an active role. ‘Cunt,’ however, connotes the woman spreads her legs (willingly or unwillingly makes no difference), but she certainly has no active role, no independent action or decision-making authority. She just has to take whatever he chooses to dish out, because she is nothing but a receptacle.
The other similar words likewise reflect Woman as the object of somebody else’s desires or actions, not an independent figure with a voice of her own.
He insulted an individual. A group’s opinion is irrelevant. Funny how the concept of treating an individual as such is ignored when it’s not convenient for a particular argument advanced for purely political reasons.
According to whom that’s what “cunt” connotes?
A groups opinion is entirely relevant. They are the target of the insult.
Y’all are kind of proving my point. Misogyny or PC isn’t the problem. He’s acting like a little kid and that’s the real problem.
No they aren’t. If I call one particular man or woman a name that is only insulting that one man or woman.
Not if the insult is a label for a whole group of people.
If I call someone a “fucking jew lawyer” that is an insult to both jews and lawyers
I’ll grant you that. But calling a specific woman a pig isn’t an insult to women. Imo.
I would quibble with this.
The problem with misogynistic (or racist) insults is not that the person the insult is directed at doesn’t deserve that level of insult. They may or may not deserve that level of insult or worse, depending on circumstance.
The problem with these types of insults is that you’re also implicitly insulting all the other members of those same groups, who shouldn’t be the targets of insults altogether.
it’s not as bad as some insults, but, it reinforces the fact that women are judged on theri looks.
Judging women on their looks is not misogynistic. Judging women only on their looks is misogynistic.
“Microagression” is only a name the professors gave to behaviors that already were happening in the non-professorial population before the profs started looking at it. It’s a thing, and not because the profs noticed it. E.g.:
What, you don’t believe that shit actually happens?! Bullshit. You know very well it does.
not exactly the type of thing that someone who was dedicated to ending sexism would say…
Yes they are. And so are men.
‘Cunt’ and ‘dick’ are both terms for sexual organs. Try spending 10 seconds thinking about the respective roles of those organs.
Pretty much every woman with whom I’ve ever discussed similar matters has agreed that calling a woman ‘cunt’ implies she is, and is nothing more than, the sexual organ that plays a passive role, and that it’s not a very broad stretch to connotations of rape and women’s historical role as a sexual submissive to a dominant man.
What does the term connote to you? Considering its etymology and denotation, does it not have sexual connotations to you?
Women more than men. But that makes no difference for purposes of this issue.
Not to anything like the same degree.