On "Bitch" and other Misogynist language
A refresher, because sadly, it seems to be necessary.
Yes, this time the person who used it used it in another country. That does not change the meaning of the word, no matter how hard you wish and hope and believe that to be true.
Note: I did not edit out slurs. Then again if this OP was alerted on the basis of the slurs in it, well... that would just be par for the course, wouldnt it?
1. The Brits use it. Some segments of British society are indeed fond of using the word cunt a lot. There are pubs in London where three seconds doesn't go by without someone shouting "yeh feckin' cunt!" at his or her mate. And…that really has nothing to do with its use at an American blog about American politics.
It also, btw, has nothing to do with whether it's intrinsically sexist. There are also bars in America where not three seconds pass without one guy calling another guy a fag. The frequency of its use in specific regional areas doesn't make it not homophobic—in those areas, or anywhere else.
Relatedly, the attempt to rip misogynist slurs from their roots to try to redefine them doesn't fly. "I'm using it in the European way" is just a cynical ploy to justify the continued use of misogynistic language that feels good to use. "Asshole" just doesn't have the zing! of "cunt," which is why we get these tortured explanations about how "cunt" isn't being used in the misogynistic way, but in the British or European way, where the word's ubiquity is fallaciously used as evidence that the word has lost all its meaning.
Throwing around the word cunt as if it has no meaning anymore—or some "new" meaning separate from gender—is ignorant and lazy, and contributes, in spite of all protestations to the contrary, to a culture of inequality.
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http://www.shakesville.com/2007/11/on-bitch-and-other-misogynist-language.html
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Idiocy Never Sleeps. 
So what's your problem?..Did you get your little feelings hurt when
you got booted from my supposed 'safe haven'?
It seems so, so I gotta tell ya -- I'm not the one who got you
booted -- all I did was reflect on the amount of work you did
to make a minor point and then try to educate you to the
bigger picture. 
That being said, I gotta tell ya, Grumps, you won't get much sympathy here, because lots of women, myself included, have been booted from the "protected rear base" of many an insecure anti-feminist here, so I guess that's just how it goes.
As DU tells its prospective members, "If you're thin-skinned, you might not want to become a member".
I'd suggest you consider that, and toughen up lest you become that saddest of souls, The Whiney White Guy who gives It Out but Can't take it.
anti-social in the Personality Disorder sense of the word.
And enjoy framing the act of challenging cultural misogyny as tilting at windmills. You won't stop anyone but you'll definitely have some... er... interesting company in that as you watch the rest of society move forward on this.
as some have lamely suggested, that we are "demanding"
that OZ and the UK do as we do IN their own countries
or on boards where the majority are NOT offended by it.
Just ignore me already if seeing these threads is such a terrible burden for you. Christ.
Thanks for keeping thIs kicked!
OK bye bye now.
my Friday would have been without this "refresher".
It boggles the mind. Read through the thread that inspired this. You will not believe it.
I am afraid there is no other choice but to send drones to Australia.
In the post of mine that was hidden I referred to someone's campaign to get me banned because I had the temerity to point out that MRA talking points were posted on DU. (A fact that has since been acknowledged by most here, but at the time this was considered a shocking allegation 
)
Back when I was the only person saying that MRA talking points were posted on DU, he campaigned to have me banned for it. Apparently he considered my saying that to be a horrible, awful thing to do. Much worse, apparently, than actually posting such talking points.
Maybe this post will be hidden too for daring to refer to his actions. Whatever. I'm used to such bullshit now.
You are seriously confused.
Your little quest to paint certain people as transphobic bigots or transphobic bigot sympathizers requires evidence. Evidence from this board, you know. The kind that can't be faked by obsessive stalkers.
You know, the kind I provided which showed you defending Warren Farrell's date rape apologia.
quoting the same off site board.
Here's a hint, try not linking to things other people say, or things you think I said elsewhere.
For example:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=905760
And here's more from Farrell, the man you're defending there by quoting decades old, bullshit studies.
"We have forgotten that before we began calling this date rape and date fraud, we called it exciting." - Warren Farrell, in Myth of Male Power
Thanks for not pretending you weren't defending Warren Farrell this time, at least.
Thanks for keeping it kicked!
And always in need of refreshers ya know.
And I'm sorry it's still necessary.
It took years to get people to stop thinking prison rape was actually a big deal and not just a joke or something to wish on someone, so I'm sure this will take much longer. We're still not there on rape culture or sexual objectification, either. But this website skews toward an older demographic. Somehow younger generations manage to grasp things that older ones just can't wrap their minds around.
I fuckin knew it!
Predictable as ever, aren't they? 
So I could serve as a juror on it. 
I am utterly humiliated that I said the forbidden word as "the" and not the proper "it." I've seen that movie over 30 times and still screwed it up. 
I can name the Alerter in Five Names.
I can name the Alerter in Four Names.
I can name the Alerter in Three Names.
I can name the Alerter in Two Names.
I can name the Alerter in One Name.
NAME THAT ALERTER!!
Maybe I'm too old for it or something, I dunno.
Name That Alerter. I like that. 
I know this isn't a Real Court but, a person deserves to know/face one's Accuser.
I think it would cut out a lot of the "game playing" alerting.
Alas, I am not on the payroll and they don't listen to me anyway 
But not really
Honestly do you actually think you're making valid points?
Toodles.
We need to find an Englishman/woman!!
the word as a noun where it's used as demeaning synonym
for "woman".
Keep trying -- Some day you may actually able to grasp it.
I'm only to happy to know that we again disagree
