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In reply to the discussion: Well, another cowardly attack... [View all]Veilex
(1,555 posts)38. "that's not the argument that's being made elsewhere on this site" - true.
This comes back to what said about how these words are used rather than what words are used.
But then, as has already been stated, there are those who'd object to one of those sexist uses while ignoring the other... thereby giving rise to the double standard you mention earlier.
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Wait, what's wrong with shrill? And hasn't "hysteria" developed well beyond it's origins by now?
kjones
Dec 2014
#14
Getting the menu mixed up with the meal, as it were. Confusing the map with the territory.
Veilex
Dec 2014
#28
"Demands for a double standard aren't reasonable" - But that is not what this is.
Veilex
Dec 2014
#32
I was responding to your post, but perhaps we both misunderstood each other
Major Nikon
Dec 2014
#36
"I do agree with you in that how something is said and the context in which it is conveyed..."
kjones
Dec 2014
#34