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_…
On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Michael J. Lowrey <orangemike(a)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(a)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#W…
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 act
like one."
I would surely like some feedback - here and there - about this.
Lightbreather
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