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Fri Aug-12-05 12:02 AM
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Fri Aug-12-05 12:02 AM
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Spider Jerusalem
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Fri Aug-12-05 12:03 AM
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2. Yeah, and there're a lot of cactuses in that photo, too |
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(except two's not "a bunch", really...)
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Fri Aug-12-05 12:05 AM
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Fri Aug-12-05 12:04 AM
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Fri Aug-12-05 12:15 AM
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5. Why is "prick" all right... |
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...but you can't use the female equivalent without freaking out a lot of people?
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Spider Jerusalem
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Fri Aug-12-05 12:24 AM
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in the case of females it's often considered to amount to objectification--which is a Bad Thing, you know, reducing someone to an orifice...but reducing them to a phallus is Just Fine, because, well, it's the fault of masculine dominance and patriarchy that women are objectified in the first place, and through the scintillating logic of this school of thought you can't objectify or effectively reduce a group in an assumed position of heirarchical sociocultural dominance, anyway...or something like that.
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Fri Aug-12-05 12:26 AM
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7. Well, ain't that a bitch. |
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Fri Aug-12-05 12:32 AM
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8. Oh, you meant "bitch". |
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Sorry. I was thinking of "cunt". Which if you think about it is more of a female equivalent to "prick"...I think "bitch" is more equivalent to "bastard", really.
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Fri Aug-12-05 12:36 AM
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9. No, I meant what you meant. |
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Although I did have a post deleted once for using "bitch".
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Fri Aug-12-05 12:42 AM
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10. I've found "shrew" to be a reasonable substitute. |
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Not gender-neutral, certainly, but then not many of the really satisfying insults are...and sometimes it's a case of le mot juste.
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Fri Aug-12-05 12:43 AM
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11. Plus it's Shakespearean! |
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I'll have to remember that.
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Fri Aug-12-05 12:59 AM
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12. Say that three times fast |
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