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Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor
Calling someone names due to their genetic makeup is a totally different deal than calling them names because of their attitude and actions.
"Oh, but bitch is a FEMALE put down", you say. To me, I could as easily call her a sanctimonious asshole, but that's a lot more to say, and I'm not sure I'm spelling it right.
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Well, even if you're calling her names because of her attitude the names you're choosing are because of her genetic make-up.
By why is it necessary to call her names of any type? Why can't you just not like her. "I don't like her personality." "I don't like the way he behaves." Maybe you apply a rigorous screening process to who you're willing to use the word on but based on my experience of hearing the word (and the much more worse, so far as most people feel, ****) over the last few days it is simply how people refer to women they don't like.
As NA said above, there is something discordant about simultaneously praising Obama as someone who creates an atmosphere of positivity and can work across acrimonious divides while taking the person who only slightly disagrees with him and going straight to pretty harsh name calling.
I know nobody is likely to believe me but when I made my post I was not particularly thinking of you, though your comment was in the general mix. I honestly did not recall that you had used a wink smiley until I just now went back to look at what you had specifically said. Pretty much it was just a response to the fact that over the last week it seems to have become broadly ok for everybody to use derogatory
female slurs when referring to her and I'd really rather, if changing the tone and atmosphere is something to be desired that we all just disagree with those we disagree with and keep
any of the, frankly stupid, name calling out of it.
But I am curious since you say you use it with very specific meaning but I have no idea what you specifically mean by it: what are the qualifications that make Clinton a bitch?