I just added her on Twitter and agree with her completely. So called liberal, educated, forward-thinking men talking about “hate fucking” women they disagree with, calling them “sluts” and “whores”.
That bullshit is precisely why there are so many more men on SDMB than women.
Talk about being in the basket of deplorables.
There’s a fair number of men on the SDMB who do try to avoid doing this, though. Doesn’t entirely make up for the misogynists, but I would hate to have to leave because of those assholes as that would be letting them win.
That was devastating; thanks for linking it.
Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there!
Like a Trump would ever serve in the military! Yeah, that’s going to happen! Any day now, just you wait!
You know how sometimes you are around a terrible stench, and smiling keeps you from gagging and throwing up all over?
Yeah, that’s that smile.
I agree that the good outweighs the bad but the bad can be pretty over the top and it’s chased away many female posters.
I am not sure how I feel about policing language towards those who you hate.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think it is right, and wouldn’t really use those insults, as there are plenty of better invectives to throw around, so there really is no need for it, and I am not really a huge fan of hurting people.
But calling someone an insult is done so because you don’t respect that person, and so using negative language against that person.
I was with an acquaintance when a woman cut him off. He yelled “Cunt!” out his window at her. I asked him why he chose to use this language, and he said it was the most hurtful thing he could think of, and he wanted to hurt her.
I don’t know that I see how calling one woman by an insulting term that happens to be specific to females insults the entirety of females. I see it as language that is meant to hurt a specific person.
I can see “slut” as that is implying that they are sexually promiscuous, and that there is something wrong with that, so there is carryover to the rest of the gender on that word. Similar to how “gay” used as an insult implies there is something wrong with being gay.
But I really see “cunt” as the female equivalent of “dick”, I see both males and females referred to as “whores”, in that they give up their principles in exchange for money or other material gain.
Like I said, I am certainly not tied to these words, and don’t think I have ever used them in an inappropriate or non-academic setting, but I am not sure where exactly the misogyny comes in, when your intent is not to insult and degrade a gender, but your intent is in fact to insult and degrade a person. I generally try to avoid being insulting and degrading to anyone, so I guess I don’t necessarily see the difference.
Can you fucking stop that? It makes you sound like a retard.
Bo, you complimented me the other day, and I should have added some points to your post, but instead I left the thread because you were throwing your quarry catchphrase around and annoying people.
Please stop.
I disagree. Using gender specific insults towards women insults them for things they have no control over, ie being female. It is similar to using the word nigger. It makes the insult more about the person saying it and less about the recipient. IMHO.
I think he’s going to have to run that one up the flagpole and see who salutes.
No.
That’s too bad; I’m sorry that you have such a short fuse and so little self-control whenever you see certain innocuous phrases, but it sounds like a personal problem.
No thanks.
it’s like “regards, shodan.” You really don’t wish to be likened to Shodan, do you?
Too late; you just did. Don’t worry, tho; you’re not the first. I’m sorry you find such an innocuous phrase so disconcerting.
Has anyone else noticed that every pound that Trump gains seems to be coming from Kellyanne? I saw her on television and she looked positively skeletal. She has clearly made a deal with the devil and he is feeding off her flesh.
Well lookey here. Kellyanne “Who thanks God every day and clicks her heels three times every day” Conway, one We Hold All Soooo Dear.
And next, they are coming, after … __YOU ___
Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha…
It’s just so lame and desperate, that’s all, especially as you keep on trying to sell it. The reek of flop sweat is stinking up the joint.
Eric has the same ‘dumb as a post’ look behind his eyes as his dad. Seems like stupidity is genetically dominant in the Trump family.
And here I thought he’d finally grown out of it. Oh well, back into the bozo bin.
Y’know, Bo, when I start feeling entitled to make fun of you, you have reached the very nadir of retardom.