And then there are those times when they just blurt it right out.
Shrill sirens – you couldn’t make it up. It’s cool because it labels us as both demonic witch-women who lure men in boats to their deaths and noisy horns that scream in your ear when something bad happens.
See also: Karens.
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The objection to calling women shrill, strident, shrewish etc. originated on the left in opposition to dismissive treatment of a less empowered group, i.e. the female sex by comparison to the male. This is the same reasoning behind why we also no longer call black people niggers, muslim people terrorists, homosexual people poofs and so on. We don’t use language that demeans any less represented group.
This reasoning has now been thrown out… Partially. It is now cool and progressive to call women shrill, karen, cunt, etc. etc. provided it is said in support of trans theory. What is notable is that sexist language stands out as the only demeaning language that has been permitted to return to the vocabulary of the progressives. Rejection of racist, homophobic, xenophobic etc. language still holds strong.
Not so sure about that even… Aren’t they calling people coconuts and house n-words if a black person disagrees with them?
You can hear echoes of intersectionality in the use of slurs and other demeaning language to refer to relatively more “privileged/oppressive” groups. To this you add a dash of lyin’ for Jesus, a handful of nebulous ideas, and top it off with a quasireligious moral frenzy.
Of course, it’s okay for x to refer to y with a slur, because x is more oppressed than y. And z can refer to y by slur when supporting x, obviously. Oh, and don’t forget that it’s okay for x and y tho refer to x2 by a slur, because x2 is “acting y” and thus perpetuating y supremacy, despite being in the same category as x.
It’s a mad-lib. Fill it in with whatever you please.
#2 BK
I have not seen a resurgence in any racial slurs.
Unfortunately this news is not as good as it might look:
https://sex-matters.org/posts/workplace-rights/ofcom-leaves-stonewall/
Elizabeth Warren was called shrill and haughty; she was not. Bernie Sanders was not called shrill or haughty; he was both. I wonder what the difference is? (Just kidding – I know what the difference is. It’s their gender identity, right?)