The sacred swear
Yes this is definitely an important hill to die on – the freedom to call women you don’t like “evil little cunt.” Our ability to reason and argue and discuss will wither and die without that freedom! Freedom freedom FREEDOM.
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Yes this is definitely an important hill to die on – the freedom to call women you don’t like “evil little cunt.” Our ability to reason and argue and discuss will wither and die without that freedom! Freedom freedom FREEDOM.
There is no point to any such comment. It doesn’t convey any useful information, or reasoning, or anything at all to indicate why an opinion is held. Its only purpose is to demean a woman for being a woman.
All the Anglo-Saxon words relating to sex are pretty unattractive, giving me the impression that the Anglo-Saxons did not enjoy life much. ‘Fuck’ is onomatopoeic with the sound a cow makes when she pulls her foot out of a bog. ‘Cunt’ is a term of abuse, at least when used by one man as a label for another. Commonly it is the opener for a brawl.
To call a man a ‘prick’ is to label him as a bit of a fool. But if he is a ‘cunt’ he is lower than a snake’s belly.
How in the English language human sexuality managed to finish up in this state could fill whole libraries with PhD theses.
“Its only purpose is to demean a woman for being a woman.” maddog1129 #1 He is defining himself as a misogynist.
Elizabeth Anderson (New Philosopher, Issue 24, #2 2019, p. 74) and Patricia Churchland (https://youtu.be/LJ7szK1Rz4w) trace gender inequality to division of labour as societies evolved, following Churchland, to settle in stable communities with the advent of agriculture (and co-incidentally the emergence of organized religion).
Two feminists have commemorated of the murder of fourteen women and injury of fourteen other women by Marc Lepine on December 6, 1989 in recent articles on misogyny.
Francine Pelletier (Nov. 22, 2019 https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/women/gender-terror) was named by Lepine as a target. “His attack was a war against feminism. He should be labelled a terrorist. Someone who kills innocent people for political reasons is the very definition of a terrorist.”
Eliabeth Renzetti wrote (The Globe and Mail, Nov. 30, 2019, O1): “Violent misogyny is a threat to half our population. We need to call it what it is: terrorism. … There’s also an argument put forth by feminist legal scholars that terror or hate-crime legislation is not a useful way to deal with the threat of sexism, on the grounds that it’s so pervasive that the legal system itself has not yet dealt with its anti-female bias.”
Pelletier and Renzetti agree that at root misogyny is based on the concept that women are less worthy of dignity and exist to be physically and emotionally available to men. Violence against women arises when a misogynist feels women deny him this availability. The violence has been deadly.