# Misogynistic language and its defenders

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [June 26, 2025, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogynistic-language-and-its-defenders/1020162 "2025-06-26T16:25:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogynistic-language-and-its-defenders/1020162/11 "2025-06-26T17:13:36Z")

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> [@Fuck all you warmongering pieces of shit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-all-you-warmongering-pieces-of-shit/1019962/431):
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> From the thread that spawned this:
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> > [@Fuck all you warmongering pieces of shit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-all-you-warmongering-pieces-of-shit/1019962/431):
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> > In a different thread I called another poster’s boss a dick, and someone else called the boss an asshole, and she felt the need to point out that her boss was a woman.

Seems to me that if “skank” is off limits, “dick” should be, as well.

I can’t remember the last time I used either of those, if ever.

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