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TreasonousBastard

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21. Good question...

Sat Feb 15, 2014, 05:33 PM

Feb 2014

perhaps it would be best to use gender, racial, ethnically, etc. neutral terms for all people we despise.

Ain't gonna happen, though. I don't hear much racial or ethnic stuff any more in the circles I frequent, but I do hear male genitalia referenced quite frequently as a negative. Dick, prick, scumbag, ballbreaker... The list goes on, although cocksucker isn't seen so much as the bad thing it used to be.

So, now that women are reaching the pinnacles of power, just how do we allude to the worst of them? Gender neutral words like "idiot" fit some, but just don't have the immediacy that "nasty bitch" has for the meanest of them.

Or, maybe women are never nasty, mean, or stupid? And even if some may be, they should not be identified as women who are nasty, mean or stupid.

Nasty, mean, or stupid men, however, should always be identified as male, because, well, that's what we are.

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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