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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2011-04-06 03:57 pm

[ SECRET POST #1555 ]


⌈ Secret Post #1555 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2011-04-07 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know, Huge Bitch is pretty fitting for the shit Vriska pulls. Thirteen or not, she still crippled Tavros for no real reason before killing him, blinded Terezi, and killed Aradia.

(Anonymous) 2011-04-07 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
... sorry, gendered slurs are never appropriate. End of.

(Anonymous) 2011-04-07 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
Funny, I hear the word bastard being used for Eridan all the time and no one cares.

(Anonymous) 2011-04-07 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
Gee, that could be because men aren't an oppressed class.

(Anonymous) 2011-04-07 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
A double standard is a double standard. If gendered insults are never acceptable than they are never acceptable. That includes when it's a man.

(Anonymous) 2011-04-07 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
baw baw derail some more

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[identity profile] cephiedvariable.livejournal.com 2011-04-07 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
The thing is that "bitch" is a gendered insult (and a pretty ugly one at that) which carries a lot of unfortunate social connotations. The difference is between shaming and gendered shaming.

Personally, I'm not bothered by the whole "bluh bluh huge bitch" meme because I always thought it was meant to be hyperbole and I'm less good about PC language than I should be durr hurr :C, but it's completely reasonable for people to be uncomfortable with it, especially since it bolsters the often very sexist frothing that surrounds discussion on Vriska's character in the fandom.

by which I mean you kinda proved anon's point
Edited 2011-04-07 04:21 (UTC)

Re: Ironic Icon Usage

(Anonymous) 2011-04-07 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
I guess my thing is that I've never seen gendered insults as a problem. They can be used problematically, of course, but so can any word.

The problem I've most often seen is when women are called bitches for being too ambitious or trying to get ahead in a 'man's world'. But that's not an issue with the word itself, it's the attitude that drives the insults. Complaining about the use of bitch is, in my opinion, missing the point and pushing focus onto the word instead of the attitude itself. Sexism doesn't go away just because you're not using a gendered insult to express it.