http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7444615trumad (1000+ posts) Tue Oct-14-08 06:48 AM
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Doesn't the term "Bitch Slap" connote violence towards women?
I'm seeing it quite a lot here on DU lately.
Oh man. You wouldn't want to demean a woman on DU! Unless, ya'know, she's running for Veep and then you can call her a whore, a porn star, a fat breeder cow, a cocktease, ect... ect... ect...
cjsmom44 (273 posts) Tue Oct-14-08 06:58 AM
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4. Yes
Yes, in answer to your question...the term is frightening to those women who have been abused by men period...and there are many of us....
bunnies (1000+ posts) Tue Oct-14-08 08:20 AM
Response to Reply #4
42. Speak for yourself, please.
As someone who spent years in a abusive relationship, I am sure as hell not frightened by a phrase.
VICTIM FIGHT!!! 2 bucks on the nOOb poster.
JTFrog (1000+ posts) Tue Oct-14-08 07:00 AM
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5. I think it's misogynistic in the fact that it's taken to mean a weak slap.
Or the fact that it contains the word "bitch".
I don't really see any definition that equates it with violence towards women in particular
jsmirman (764 posts) Tue Oct-14-08 07:20 AM
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18. Congratulations. That's as wrong and silly as the topic to begin with.
Yes, it connotes violence towards women if you've been living under a rock and are woefully unfamiliar with how it's been used for the last decade.
People, sometimes, please.
pecwae (1000+ posts) Tue Oct-14-08 07:06 AM
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8. No, it's okay
any gratuitous use of misogynist term is perfectly acceptable. Women should just stop being so ******* oversensitive about the use of bitch, whore, c*nt, because there's an election to win.
But, again, it's perfectly acceptable to say those things about Sarah Palin because she is a demoness who eats babies.
TorchTheWitch (1000+ posts) Tue Oct-14-08 07:29 AM
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24. Yes, it's violent toward woman
It's origination comes out of the gang/criminal culture where women are expected to be subserviant to men. The action is a strong slap to the face usually by a man to "his bitch" as a means of putting a defiant woman in her place and more preferred to be done publically to add humilation to the woman slapped. The term became mainstream when the rap/hip hop culture adopted the term with its original meaning. It is only very recently that the term was borrowed and used differently to mean a humiliating defeat of some kind by a man or woman.
I particularly hate this term not only because of it's origination but because its origination is fairly recent and still mostly used with the original intended meaning... it's only very recently that the term has been borrowed and used differently.
Ummm... Did she just, like, TOTALLY condemn black culture there?
KzooDem (1000+ posts) Tue Oct-14-08 08:21 AM
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44. Oh good ****ing lord....here we go again. The semantics police is on the prowl.
I used the term bitch slap in a thread I started just yesterday. I said that I wanted to bitch slap this vapid woman on MSNBC who claimed to be a Dem, but was spouting Palin talking points of reasons she's voting for McCain.
The woman is a lying bitch. Therefore, I wanted to bitch slap her.
I'm not advocating violence toward women. Would you have had an issue had I just said "I want to slap this woman?"
These are figures of speech. I think everyone pretty much understands what bitch slap means, and I think everyone understands that it's a goddsmned figure of speech and not a call for violence toward women.
To imply that it is smacks of disingenuity. We're adults, we know what it means, and what it doesn't mean. GET A GRIP.
I'm sorry it bothers you, but it's doubtful that I'll censor my vocabulary because it seems to upset your delicate constitution.
And a Mod over there locked the thread because he used the word. LOL!
