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madaboutharry

(40,212 posts)
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 04:57 PM Feb 2018

No one has mentioned the sexism in the Nunes Memo.

One of the things that has jumped out at me and that has not been mentioned is the use of the term mistress to describe Lisa Page.

"Strzok was reassigned by the Special Counsel’s Office to FBI Human Resources for improper text messages with his mistress, FBI Attorney Lisa Page (no known relation to Carter Page), where they both demonstrated a clear bias against Trump and in favor of Clinton, whom Strzok had also investigated. "



The term mistress, in the context it is used here, is an archaic, retrograde, and sexist term.

From Google dictionary:

"a woman who has a continuing, extramarital sexual relationship with one man, especially a man who, in return for an exclusive and continuing liaison, provides her with financial support."


Whatever knuckledragger wrote this memo is a sexist and a misogynist who wrote of an FBI attorney in a demeaning and degrading way. The author of the memo referred to her as a whore.

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No one has mentioned the sexism in the Nunes Memo. (Original Post) madaboutharry Feb 2018 OP
strzok is married. unblock Feb 2018 #1
I'll correct that. madaboutharry Feb 2018 #2
Paramour would have been more appropriate. nt eppur_se_muova Feb 2018 #3
That old term is used all the time Raine Feb 2018 #4
Isnt the guy married and they woman unmarried? GulfCoast66 Feb 2018 #5
What would the dude version word be? ismnotwasm Feb 2018 #6
Ok, you lost me there. What are you asking? GulfCoast66 Feb 2018 #8
Paramour is frequently suggested as the male equivalent of mistress, although gender neutral. n/t Akoto Feb 2018 #9
This guy named Cash wrote this bullcrap memo. n/t Kirk Lover Feb 2018 #7

GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
5. Isnt the guy married and they woman unmarried?
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 10:30 PM
Feb 2018

If so mistress is the most common term for the situation.

Yeah, I know they are equals in the FBI. But I do not see this as sexism or mysogny.

If she were married and he single would calling him her lover be verboten?

Nit picking this kind of thing in this shit burger of a memo is a distraction and makes us look silly.

GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
8. Ok, you lost me there. What are you asking?
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 10:37 PM
Feb 2018

Cause except for The Big Lebowski the term dude is meaningless to me.

Perhaps I am too old.

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