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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: AzJames73 on July 28, 2017, 12:54:40 PM
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MineralMan (96,787 posts) https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029385406
Please don't refer to any person with the word that means a female dog.
That would be great. If you don't mind, of course.
Somebody call you an old bitch ? :-)
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Mushhead aspires to be a bitch.
Right now, he's just the male version of a c*nt.
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Someone needs to remind MM of DU's standing exceptions for women like Melania, Ivanka, Sarah Palin, Condoleezza Rice, Dana Loesch, etc..
If it weren't for double standards, DU would have no standards at all.
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Throw his sorry in jail. He'd be the prison bitch in no time.
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That dude is a bitch.
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Towlie (2,213 posts)
22. I'm with you, I think MineralMan is just going to have to deal with it.
As a noun, "bitch" is a common term in prison movies that means a person forced to submit, and as a verb it means "gripe obnoxiously." There's really no better way to express thoughts like "Trump is Putin's bitch", and "Trump wants each of his cabinet members to be his bitch."
If MineralMan is upset about the sexist nature of our language it would make more sense to protest the absence of pronouns for people of unspecified sex. We're presently stuck with "he/she" or "him/her", or swapping masculine and feminine pronouns at random, or to just use the masculine form as a default. I've never seen an alternative that actually took hold, and it's not the fault of anyone alive that the language is that way.
Words that have acquired undesired connotations due to the evolution of our society are a lot like Obamacare — You can't just eliminate them, you can only replace them with something better.
Final thought: If MineralMan is really concerned about sexism, why isn't he "MineralPerson"?
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MineralMan (96,798 posts)
10. I'm only referring to DU.
DU is not a rap venue. It's supposed to be a political discussion forum with a certain sense of maturity, and not a middle school playground. Anyhow, it was just a request. I don't make any rules on the Internet.
:rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
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Personally, I try to avoid cursing in general as much as possible (A minor exception is if I'm quoting a movie or show, and even that I only do when I find it necessary). As a Christian it's immoral, as a simple person it makes one sound crude and unintelligent, and as someone who regularly works with/ around kids and teens through youth ministry and substitute teaching I don't want to set a bad example.
Of course, the DUmmies have none of those concerns.
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MineralMan (96,798 posts)
10. I'm only referring to DU.
DU is not a rap venue. It's supposed to be a political discussion forum with a certain sense of maturity, and not a middle school playground. Anyhow, it was just a request. I don't make any rules on the Internet.
Maturity? On DU? :rotf: Most of DU's members are constitutionally incapable of saying Donald Trump's name without appending an expletive, twisting Trump's name int a crude anatomic reference, or making a sexually degrading remark about Trump. The same is true of Bush and Reagan. Compared to DU, a middle school playground is a paragon of maturity and decorum.
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MineralMan (96,798 posts)
10. I'm only referring to DU.
DU is not a rap venue. It's supposed to be a political discussion forum with a certain sense of maturity, and not a middle school playground. Anyhow, it was just a request. I don't make any rules on the Internet.
Holy tacos, Batman! Maturity on DU? LOL! How do the likes of Bravenak, Laydeebug and TheMastersNemesis, the exalted ones at DU get a pass from the rest of you dolts?
You are full of yourself, MM, which means you're full of s***
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An alternate perspective...
Maturity? On DU? :rotf: Most of DU's members are constipated tutionally incapable of saying Donald Trump's name without appending an expletive, twisting Trump's name int a crude anatomic reference, or making a sexually degrading remark about Trump. The same is true of Bush and Reagan. Compared to DU, a middle school playground is a paragon of maturity and decorum.
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An alternate perspective...
So, how do they contrive for it all to flow through their finger and onto DU threads?
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Bitch, please.
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So, how do they contrive for it all to flow through their finger and onto DU threads?
I'll defer this question to Pam (demtenjeep)
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Maturity? On DU? :rotf: Most of DU's members are constitutionally incapable of saying Donald Trump's name without appending an expletive, twisting Trump's name int a crude anatomic reference, or making a sexually degrading remark about Trump. The same is true of Bush and Reagan. Compared to DU, a middle school playground is a paragon of maturity and decorum.
I can still remember, in the wake of Scott Brown winning the then- recently- deceased Ted Kennedy's Senate seat, there was a DU thread in which the DUmmies were trying to come up with an insulting nickname for Brown. The nickname they settled on in that thread was so stupid, crass, and infantile I won't dignify it by repeating it here.