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Can we criticize even shitty people without resorting to sexist remarks please? Lemmy feels like it should be above that kinda language. Call her a turd or whatever 💩
It’s always disappointing to see people who think themselves reasonable delighting in the usage of slurs when given the opportunity to tear down someone they perceive as disliked by their community. It is much more damning to them than the object of their ire.
Greene is a symptom of the cancer metastasized on our civilization, but deploying gendered slurs against her is counterproductive and pitiful.
It's the attacks on appearance for me.
Pointless ones. She looks like a normal person. That she's got an infection of fascist brain worms is something you can call out directly.
I don't know... she looks like she has crazy eyes to me. I don't think that's sexist. I can think of plenty of crazy men with the similar look in their eyes.
There's a pretty big difference between saying someone has crazy eyes and the kind of attacks she draws regularly in center/left circles.
Fair enough.
1: Bitch isn’t a slur any more than dick is. That’s just an objectively false statement.
2: If someone is being a bitch, I’m going to call them a bitch - regardless of gender
Or would you prefer “cunt”?
Unfortunately for you, you are not the authority on what is and isn’t a slur.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitch_(slang)
Excuse me, could you please not insult turds by comparing them to that horrific person?!?!
Bless you. You be doin the Lord’s work.
Calling someone a bitch is no different than calling someone a dick or an asshole - and is not strictly tied to any gender. I’ll call anyone a bitch if they’re acting like one.
It would be different if I was casually referring to her as a bitch, like “I was talking to this one bitch” or something, but that’s not the case.
Since when was bitch sexist?
It depends on context. In this case it obviously is. If I were to say bitch please in a sassy way, it probably isn't.
I wouldn’t call her a “bitch”, but I would not disagree with the statement that she could be grouped in same category and class as Kyle’s Mom from South Park from the perspective of Eric Cartman