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Warren DeMontague

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3. She also called me "cute", so, maybe it sort of balances out.

Reply to Major Nikon (Original post)

Fri Feb 14, 2014, 06:30 PM

Feb 2014

FWIW, I wasn't personally particularly hung up on that post.

Which is not to validate or invalidate your larger thesis, of course. I think the questions around the "b" word, of course in this context it was used re: Sarah Palin as opposed to a direct personal insult on a DU member- have been beaten into the ground, starting with the 8 threads or so on the topic dated 2004. There's no point, for me at least, in riding that roller coaster around the track again.

Far more interesting IMHO, re: your OP and the post directed at me, is the post it was in response to, which I don't actually think was very "dickish" at all.

I guess I just don't grok this whole "microagressions" meme.

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Community double standards [View all] Major Nikon Feb 2014 OP

Really? An alerter thinks "dickish" is as loaded a word as "bitch"? Scuba Feb 2014 #1

Yes, after I suggested another poster seemed tense, I orchestrated a break in at the Watergate Hotel Warren DeMontague Feb 2014 #4

Obviously the community proved it wasn't as loaded Major Nikon Feb 2014 #5

Wish I could say I was surprised.... opiate69 Feb 2014 #2

She also called me "cute", so, maybe it sort of balances out. Warren DeMontague Feb 2014 #3

I really wouldn't expect you to be all that hung up on that post Major Nikon Feb 2014 #6

The alert ought to be on calling you "cute". westerebus Feb 2014 #8

Hell, I'll take what I can get. Warren DeMontague Feb 2014 #9

I hear ya. westerebus Feb 2014 #10

what term SHOULD we use to describe Palin and the rest of her ilk? Doctor_J Feb 2014 #7

Well cunt-ish wouldn't be okay. I guess we have to stick with dick-ish. nt Bonobo Feb 2014 #12

Yet another alert survivor... TreasonousBastard Feb 2014 #22

and...... results... opiate69 Feb 2014 #27

Pretty much pegs the irony meter Major Nikon Feb 2014 #30

I don't even think that's a word. Warren DeMontague Feb 2014 #23

Was that necessary to say that? hrmjustin Feb 2014 #25

Good question... TreasonousBastard Feb 2014 #21

I think there's always going to be a double standard noamnety Feb 2014 #11

"historically oppressed" doesn't mean the same thing for the two groups you are conflating Major Nikon Feb 2014 #15

This was just left to leave 3-3. RiffRandell Feb 2014 #13

Disgusting. opiate69 Feb 2014 #14

I have a better one. lumberjack_jeff Feb 2014 #16

The perpetually outraged about sexism on DU have no issues with it when it goes the other direction Major Nikon Feb 2014 #17

Believe it or not, it was once much much worse. lumberjack_jeff Feb 2014 #18

That thread is laughable ProudToBeBlueInRhody Feb 2014 #19

there is another post in that thread that includes the term Doctor_J Feb 2014 #28

Check out what a little songbird told me... opiate69 Feb 2014 #20

"Men pretend that using adjectives like "dickish" is as bad as calling women "bitches". " Major Nikon Feb 2014 #31

I just want to be referred to as "Mr. Dickish" Warren DeMontague Feb 2014 #24

That's Doctor Dickish to you. lumberjack_jeff Feb 2014 #29

I also believe that women use that epithet on each other Doctor_J Feb 2014 #26

It really seems to come down to who is called as a jury. In_The_Wind Feb 2014 #32

This is absolutely correct Major Nikon Feb 2014 #33

I totally agree with you. In_The_Wind Feb 2014 #34

They are hypervigilant too. Doctor_J Feb 2014 #35

I propose a new abbreviation: DYSTIG. Bonobo Feb 2014 #36

I second the proposal! In_The_Wind Feb 2014 #37