"Bitch" is not remotely analogous to "bastard" or "prick," and has a far different history -- it's a false equivalency. "Bitch" is a gross slur and compares a woman to an animal -- specifically, to a female dog used for breeding. Think about that for a minute. Considering the treatment of women even now, and still more in the past, this is disgusting.
"Feminazi" is a disgusting and absurd term used to discredit feminists by comparing them to Nazis. Now think about this one for a minute. They are literally saying that by wanting women to have the same rights and privileges as men, feminists are just like Nazis. This is incredibly offensive, and not just because feminists aren't like Nazis. And if you think its use is limited to women who are "jerks" (and really, who decides whether they are or not? Oh yeah. Men), well, you're pretty damn naive. Any woman who dares speak out against a man about sexism and misogyny is pretty automatically termed a "feminazi."
There is a pretty long history of men calling women "ugly" and "fat" in order to discredit and shame them into shutting up and shutting down. Particularly, feminists have been stereotyped as being fat, ugly women who just hate men and want to, idk, put them down or something, rather than ordinary, everyday women who just want equal rights. It's a way to shame women into silence, and it is pretty much only used against women and especially feminists. Calling a feminist a "fat, ugly man-hater" is an attempt to shame her and discredit and disregard her feelings and opinions as just "hating men" and a natural result of her being fat and ugly (because obviously your appearance has so much to do with your intellectual ability, amirite?!). There is a long, long, long history of insults to women's appearances being used to shame and discredit them and shut them up. And again, comparing it to someone insulting a Democrat like that -- which nobody does, by the way, nobody ever looks at someone and goes "you're a Democrat, so you must be fat and ugly!" but they suuure as fuck do with feminists -- is a false equivalency.
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"Bitch" is not remotely analogous to "bastard" or "prick," and has a far different history -- it's a false equivalency. "Bitch" is a gross slur and compares a woman to an animal -- specifically, to a female dog used for breeding. Think about that for a minute. Considering the treatment of women even now, and still more in the past, this is disgusting.
"Feminazi" is a disgusting and absurd term used to discredit feminists by comparing them to Nazis. Now think about this one for a minute. They are literally saying that by wanting women to have the same rights and privileges as men, feminists are just like Nazis. This is incredibly offensive, and not just because feminists aren't like Nazis. And if you think its use is limited to women who are "jerks" (and really, who decides whether they are or not? Oh yeah. Men), well, you're pretty damn naive. Any woman who dares speak out against a man about sexism and misogyny is pretty automatically termed a "feminazi."
There is a pretty long history of men calling women "ugly" and "fat" in order to discredit and shame them into shutting up and shutting down. Particularly, feminists have been stereotyped as being fat, ugly women who just hate men and want to, idk, put them down or something, rather than ordinary, everyday women who just want equal rights. It's a way to shame women into silence, and it is pretty much only used against women and especially feminists. Calling a feminist a "fat, ugly man-hater" is an attempt to shame her and discredit and disregard her feelings and opinions as just "hating men" and a natural result of her being fat and ugly (because obviously your appearance has so much to do with your intellectual ability, amirite?!). There is a long, long, long history of insults to women's appearances being used to shame and discredit them and shut them up. And again, comparing it to someone insulting a Democrat like that -- which nobody does, by the way, nobody ever looks at someone and goes "you're a Democrat, so you must be fat and ugly!" but they suuure as fuck do with feminists -- is a false equivalency.