Escape Goat
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Whats the difference?
Do you use gendered insults for the opposite gender
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Whats the difference?
Well this is a warm welcome to the beginning of a conversation, but I always took "bastard" as being something that most people used toward men. I've never seen it applied to women, though I guess it technically could.
An out of wedlock child. Much like another term for prosititute, it is actually neutral but gets commonly used with one gender.
Devolution
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Because no one wants to be one. That's why gendered slurs are shitty.
?? I would have thought manchild counted as a slur. Not a very powerful one, and one that says more about the person using it, but one none the less.
SquiddyCracker
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I'm okay with gendered insults for both gender, but not the harsher variety for females (Cunt, eh etc) as females have a more vulnerable position in society.
Vermillion
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No one wants to be any insult :/
They use femininity as the insult. Not quite the same as being called a "douchebag".
Devolution
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Yes but we're talking gender specific slurs. Just as race and sexual orientation slurs are used to make people feel shitty for the same reasons.
ThisWreckage
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There isn't one. I don't know a single male that would want to be called a manchild or a dick. Insults can be slurs.
As a non-native speaker I'm no expert, but bitch sounds like a pretty awful word, even if its use as an insult for a woman who does dumb things, because the origin of the world implies that she is promiscuous and somehow being promiscuous is just not ok for women, men don't have such epithets, so is basically a very sexist insult.
I would compare it to call something "gay" when is just dumb or stupid, people don't realize but the origin of using the word comes from discrimination, theres a reason why "nigger" evokes so much to everyone, even if is a pretty unoffensive word by itself.
And you people have insults like asshole, douch bag or things like that that are even better when insulting someone from doing dumb and stupid things.
I would compare it to call something "gay" when is just dumb or stupid, people don't realize but the origin of using the word comes from discrimination, theres a reason why "nigger" evokes so much to everyone, even if is a pretty unoffensive word by itself.
And you people have insults like asshole, douch bag or things like that that are even better when insulting someone from doing dumb and stupid things.
notworksafe
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Bullshit.
blame space
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femininity is bad and should be feared. be a man, kill someone.
Brian Fellows
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Sure I guess. If you're sad enough to over think insults and take them too literally.
That's quite the double standard.
RatskyWatsky
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I just call everyone a "bitch". Man or woman.
I don't use them but mostly because they don't have as much of an impact as an insult when it's so commonly spoken. When girls casually refer to each other as bitches, it takes a lot of the punch out of it.
However, if you knew there was something that would break an adversary, it's almost compels one to use it. The purpose is to dominate, humiliate and outright destroy an opponent if necessary without having to resort to force.
I do think it's somewhat humorous to be progressive about words that are primarily meant to insult, as if gendered neutral insults are arbitrarily deemed to be less offensive, but so long as the moderation is equal on all gendered insults as a whole, there's no logical inconsistency.
However, if you knew there was something that would break an adversary, it's almost compels one to use it. The purpose is to dominate, humiliate and outright destroy an opponent if necessary without having to resort to force.
I do think it's somewhat humorous to be progressive about words that are primarily meant to insult, as if gendered neutral insults are arbitrarily deemed to be less offensive, but so long as the moderation is equal on all gendered insults as a whole, there's no logical inconsistency.
Technically yeah.
I don't think bitchy has anything to do with promiscuity. At least I've never heard it used that way.
Devolution
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Nope. Only if you don't know the impact of gendered pejoratives and think the male equivalents are the same.
No it's not. Do you know what a douche is?
I was under the impression that the origin of the word meant to imply the person was a female dog.
Pretty sure the word "gay" used to mean happy and it's only been in recent times that it has been used as another word for homosexual.
It's "sad" if you consider the meaning and intent behind your words?
Of course. It must be because I'm uneducated.
AbortedWalrusFetus
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And here I thought the victim got to determine whether or not something aimed at them was a slur, not someone outside the group it was aimed it.
Broder Salsa
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I always liked being called a dick. "Fuck yeah, I'm a big dick".
Silas Lang
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Nope don't really use gender specific insults that often. I use gender neutral insults like asshat though. 
PetriP-TNT
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This is the 50th thread about this shit in the past 2 months and I am not even kidding here. And they are always the same. And do nothing (good at least).
ThisWreckage
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1) Know who you are dealing with 2) Don't take the bait.
Well, if we are grading things by impact, surely we need to be wholistic in our assesment. We better get rid of gender categories and consider each insult on its ability to have an impact on a larger group, not just the target, when used.
Yes it is, is is a device used only by women.
notworksafe
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The male equivalents are meant to express contempt for someone based on their gender. Not sure what the difference is here.
Shut up you slag.
Yes. I do this.
Because asking for male slurs to be bannable is just being offended for the sake of being offended. We don't face sexism and we aren't reminded 24/7 why we're inferior just for being male nor is there pervasive sexism against males. It's similar to the n-word/cracka false equivalency, which Louis C.K. dirtnapped. A male slur being directed at me is the same as calling me a gender-neutral insult like "idiot", the male slur only affects me at face value and there's nothing loaded behind it.
Well no not really, mostly used by women.
Escape Goat
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You can't say that! Mewling quim is acceptable though.
nVidiot_Whore
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I never really understood "douche" as an insult.
So.. you clean vaginas?
So.. you clean vaginas?
1) I know
2) There's a point I wanted to make before dropping out of the thread
ReturnOfTheRAT
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Wish I was British so I could call men cunts and sound cool
I would just call women slags if I were British because you got to keep it classy.
Eurogaf.com is available.
MPAA hypocrisy at it finest.
Air Zombie Meat
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My gendered slurs are aimed without prejudice at either sex. I tend to find in the real world people are able to take them in context without assuming underlying sexist motives.
And if that word is really banned then it's a huge blow to Breaking Bad threads.
And if that word is really banned then it's a huge blow to Breaking Bad threads.
Broder Salsa
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Not even sure what that means. Going to assume it's a really extremely oversized penis.
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