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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNo 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 Counsels 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.
unblock
(52,243 posts)i agree it's a peculiar term to use, regardless.
madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,266 posts)Raine
(30,540 posts)on everything, it's so irritating and inaccurate.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)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.
ismnotwasm
(41,986 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Cause except for The Big Lebowski the term dude is meaningless to me.
Perhaps I am too old.