Reply #69: It's at least subtle. [View All]

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Derogatory, marginalizing.....sure, but last I knew, that wasn't a crime, and "extrapolation" is exactly what isn't fair. Noticing Katherine Harris's breasts and makeup....for cryeye, who couldn't. If I notice that Katherine Harris has done something trivial like pumping up her boobs, then my laughing at it doesn't trivialize her. She did that herself.

Nor did I put a tag on Laura Bush as a woman. It just turns out that her chosen and appointed function, politically and as a matter of state, is to stand by W and gaze adoringly into his eyes and, one might further note, say something catty about Hillary's decorating ability. Yes, I said catty. She chose the stereotypical gender role for herself. I just noticed it.

In sum, some people are marginalized because they should be, without regard to racism, sexism. If aggression and meanspiritedness are problems, they aren't the racism and sexism problem. They are different. Sometimes an insult is just an insult, not subtle racism. Sometimes something is subtled right out of existence. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Bitch, slut and whore can be misogynistic and are overdone entirely, I agree. "MAnne Coulter" generally gets an objection, but you know, if she didn't try to feign some sort of look, I bet that wouldn't happen so much. Having picked a particular gender role of hottie, someone brings up how she falls short.

By the way, anyone that thinks nasty sexual oriented commentary is limited to women:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=829487&mesg_id=829487

Racist? Homophobic? Marginalizing? Too funny to resist?