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Robert Stacy McCain on Date Rape: 'You Buy the Ticket, You Take the Ride'

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Nyet12/08/2010 3:10:16 pm PST

re: #232 iceweasel

It’s generally a mistake to refer to women’s justified anger over the use of sexually degrading language as a ‘temper tantrum’ or to dismiss it as an ‘emotional’ reaction.
Especially when it’s been explained, repeatedly, why these words are loaded.
A word to the wise.

Bigoted language against women is really one of the last socially accepted bigotries in the West. This needs to change and the good start would be a total moratorium on these words unless they’re used in quotes.

Some people (and no, I’m not saying this about anyone here, what I have in mind are real-life Russian examples I often read in Runet) try to “save” bigoted lexicon by applying the words only to “bad” representatives of the group. Thus the k-word (zhid in Russian) is only applied to “Jews who are really greedy”, the n-word is only applied to “blacks who are really lazy and stupid”, etc. The funny thing is that this lets people think that they’re not being bigoted - they’re not maligning the whole group, after all, they even say that the rest of the group is “good”.