These words do cause concern..this is an interesting essay on Bill Maher's use of the word...and the author ends by stating: Someone as clever as Maher, who writes and talks for a living, also probably has other words in his vocabulary that he could use, if he needs to express his contempt for Sarah Palin—words that aren't inherently misogynistic, words that don't demean other women in the process of discussing a particular woman.
I challenge him to use those words, and prove to us he's actually as smart a guy as he thinks he is.
[more here] Last week, I mentioned http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2011/03/observation_23.html that Bill Maher had called Sarah Palin a "dumb twat" on his show. On the next episode, he called http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/26/maher-strikes-again-bachmann-and-palin-two-bimbos/ Palin and Rep. Michele Bachmann "bimbos." Then, Sunday night, during a comedy show in Dallas, he reportedly http://www.dallasvoice.com/maher-your-beautiful-theater-gonna-long-1070487.html called Sarah Palin a "cunt," because "there's just no other word for her." http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/542786/unacceptable%3A_sexist_b...
On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Michael J. Lowrey orangemike@gmail.com wrote:
My British contacts insist that the term "cunt" as an insult is not sexist in usage or intent. Vulgar, but not sexist.
On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 4:02 PM, LB lightbreather2@gmail.com wrote:
One of my hurdles as an editor is incivility: a deficiency of it in
others
and, according to some of them, too much of it in me - or too much sensitivity. I started a discussion "Where and how to request a Civility board"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Wh...
and there seems to be some strong resistance to the idea.
Disappointingly, but perhaps not surprisingly, the third person to reply dragged gender into it, with this comment:
"Besides, the easiest way to avoid being called a cunt is not to actlike one."
I would surely like some feedback - here and there - about this.
Lightbreather
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FYI. The "C" word discussion was prompted by the now closed WP:AN discussion mentioned previously. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Administrators%27_noticeboard#W...
On 7/27/2014 7:51 PM, Kathleen McCook wrote:
These words do cause concern..this is an interesting essay on Bill Maher's use of the word...and the author ends by stating: Someone as clever as Maher, who writes and talks for a living, also probably has other words in his vocabulary that he could use, if he needs to express his contempt for Sarah Palin---words that aren't inherently misogynistic, words that don't demean other women in the process of discussing a particular woman.
... Just searching around found this interesting paper: http://www.tpettijohn.net/academic/Livosky%20Pettijohn%20Capo%20%282011%29%2... PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATION -- AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL Reducing Sexist Attitudes as a Result of Completing an Undergraduate Psychology of Gender Course
Now what positive incentives can we offer to get some of these guys to take some sort of online course that they or we or someone could put together. A really great barnstar??