[ SECRET POST #2150 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2150 ⌋

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

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Comments

[diet_poison]

Society is made up of the sum of its people. Apparently, plenty of people no longer find the word "cunt" sexist. One day maybe nobody will. Your opinion doesn't automatically trump everyone else's. Nobody is saying you're not allowed to find a word sexist, but you're sitting here screaming that everyone else DOES have to find it sexist. Also, nobody is ignoring historical connotations and all that, some people just decide, after taking them into consideration, that the word as they hear it used today isn't sexist.

"Cunt" is definitely used as a sexist term at times, absolutely. But not every use of the word is a sexist use.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, if people are using it in a reclamatory way or to refer to their own body part as a descriptor, of course it's not sexist.

But that's not the usage that the people in this thread have been talking about, so...

[(Anonymous)]

People in this thread have been using it as an affectionate term for a friend. Because that is what it is to us.

[(Anonymous)]

It's an insulting term of endearment. Lots of people use them. People here use 'bitch' the same way - in an affectionate way.

Just because it's a term of endearment doesn't take away the fact that it's also an insult which is an insult because of its connotations regarding female genitalia.

[(Anonymous)]

I'd love to continue this because you are hilarious, but I have to get on the tube and go to work. Oops! Can I say tube? Or is that sexist because women have fallopian tubes?

[(Anonymous)]

I love you.

[diet_poison]

You don't get to determine what people mean when they say a word. You can scream all you want about original context, but as long as the SPECIFIC context in which the word is used isn't sexist, I'm going to go on believing it is not, in that instance, a sexist slur.

If a stranger on the Internet who happens to know I am female, but is angry at me for whatever reason, calls me a bitch, I'm going to assume they're probably being sexist. If a friend who I know and trust calls me a bitch in jest, I'm going to assume they're not being sexist. That isn't a conclusion that would make any sense to me - that's not where those people are coming from. We use it with male and female friends, and the idea of a "female dog" doesn't come to mind when we use it in that context. Both of those things have happened. Only one makes me angry. The other is just NOT A BIG DEAL. You can keep insisting that me and my friends are being overtly sexist when we do that, and I'm going to keep rolling my eyes. Or, you know, you could just accept that not everyone sees it the way you do, and focus on more pressing issues regarding women and sexism.