# Misogyny from The Onion
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-from-the-onion/656533
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 23, 2013, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-from-the-onion/656533 "2013-04-23T20:23:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2013, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-from-the-onion/656533/1 "2013-04-23T20:23:24Z")
> **[Surgeon General Warns Teens Cinnamon Challenge Is Not For Pussies](https://www.theonion.com/surgeon-general-warns-teens-cinnamon-challenge-is-not-f-1819574872)**
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> WASHINGTON—According to an announcement Tuesday by the Surgeon General’s office, the “cinnamon challenge”—a new fad in which teens attempt to swallow spoonfuls of cinnamon without water—may be hazardous to pansy-ass teens who aren’t cool enough to...
we are living in 2013 and people are still using the word pussy to denote weakness?
I think we should boycott this website until they stop degrading women
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### Author:  [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2013, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-from-the-onion/656533/2 "2013-04-23T20:25:55Z")
You are aware of how hyperbole & satire work, right? Or is this thread a whoosh?
Besides, strange as it may seem The Onion actually, sometimes, provides a better analysis of current events than the MSM. Regrettably.
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### Author:  [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2013, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-from-the-onion/656533/3 "2013-04-23T20:26:23Z")
I’m not not seeing the misogyny.
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### Author:  [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2013, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-from-the-onion/656533/4 "2013-04-23T20:28:14Z")
You can be satirical without being hateful and perpetuating hurtful stereotypes
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### Author:  [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2013, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-from-the-onion/656533/5 "2013-04-23T20:30:08Z")
> [@PSXer](#):
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> You can be satirical without being hateful and perpetuating hurtful stereotypes
So are you going to boycott their website?
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### Author:  [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2013, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-from-the-onion/656533/6 "2013-04-23T20:32:26Z")
> [@PSXer](#):
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> You can be satirical without being hateful and perpetuating hurtful stereotypes
And you can start threads without being whiny and making yourself look silly.
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### Author:  [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2013, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-from-the-onion/656533/7 "2013-04-23T20:33:46Z")
So they don’t mean kitty cats then?
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### Author:  [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2013, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-from-the-onion/656533/8 "2013-04-23T20:36:52Z")
Sounds like someone got sand in their vagina.
Now THATS misogyny.
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### Author:  [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2013, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-from-the-onion/656533/9 "2013-04-23T20:36:56Z")
God, how much longer is this petulant bullshit going to go on? A bunch of you are sad that you can’t make titty jokes in medical threads anymore. We get it. Grow up.
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### Author:  [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2013, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-from-the-onion/656533/10 "2013-04-23T20:37:28Z")
Awwww, don’t be a dick about it…
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### Author:  [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2013, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-from-the-onion/656533/11 "2013-04-23T20:38:24Z")
> [@Yeticus\_Rex](#):
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> Awwww, don’t be a dick about it…
…or get your titty in a wringer.
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### Author:  [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2013, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-from-the-onion/656533/12 "2013-04-23T20:38:39Z")
Using “Pussy” to denote weakness is rooted in calling someone a “Pussy Cat,” so no - there’s no misogyny there.
Also, how many of these “fake outrage” posts are you going to start this month?
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### Author:  [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-from-the-onion/656533/13 "2013-04-23T20:39:42Z")
Besides, “Pussy” does not refer exclusively to girlyparts. It is also used to mean any soft, fuzzy, warm thing (pussy cat, pussy willow, diminutive of face(puss)). Would you be ok with calling weak people “soft”?
You’re having us on, right?
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### Author:  [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2013, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-from-the-onion/656533/14 "2013-04-23T20:41:19Z")
The whole crying “misogyny” thing is getting tiresome. Not every sexual comment or reference to female body parts is misogynistic. I am a woman, and I don’t need people “defending” my gender against dispersion. Thinking women in general need to be protected or defended against insult is insulting in and of itself.
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2013, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-from-the-onion/656533/15 "2013-04-23T20:45:34Z")
Could we just give the whole misogyny thing a rest, please?
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### Author:  [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2013, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-from-the-onion/656533/16 "2013-04-23T20:46:31Z")
Closing this down for a few reasons…
1. theonion is not a serious website, in case you didn’t know.
2. We don’t need another thread on this subject
3. It would probably turn into a pile on anyway.
So feel free to take it to the Pit if anyone wishes to pit anyone else or discuss it further.