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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2010-03-23 04:32 pm

[ SECRET POST #1174 ]


⌈ Secret Post #1174 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Re: 147

(Anonymous) 2010-03-24 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
Just because it's a colloquialism, doesn't mean that it's not offensive to some women, and harmful to society's view of women in general. Women are commonly referred to in these animal terms, such as "chick", "[sex] kitten", or"bitch", and in using the animal terms, women are reduced to sub-human status, which is naturally far from promoting gender equality. Moreover, the animal terms used towards females are chosen based on the negative aspects, or objectifiable aspects of women's perceived characters or attributes. A chick is weak, a baby, all fluffy and incapable of surviving on its own; a bitch refers to readiness for sex, as if that's all the woman's good for; sex kitten is almost a perfect fusion of the two! Alluring, yet weak and helpless... all indicate a woman's supposed need for a man in some way. On the other hand, if you look at the animal terms for men - which are less abundant in the first place - they refer to positives like strength and sexual prowess; things like "stallion" or "stud".

The double standards are clear, and many women now find them unacceptable, as they divide the genders up into the strong and weak, or the entitled and non-entitled, just as racist language (which wasn't actually being used here in the first place) is unacceptable for dividing races up in the same way. Society as a whole may not feel this way about sexist words yet, but hopefully that day is on its way, and any elitist, divisive language will be considered as bad as any other.