# 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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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogynistic-language-and-its-defenders/1020162/2 "2025-06-26T16:34:46Z")

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From the thread that spawned this:

> [@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.

That kind of proves the point, though… People were using those words of the boss without knowing her gender. But nobody would ever call someone of unknown gender a “skank”.

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