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In reply to the discussion: Misogynistic language.... [View all]tanbrown
(32 posts)how about all the words of contempt:
A pussy (vagina) is a weakling or coward.
A sissy (sister): same thing.
Teenage boys mock their male peers by addressing them as "you girls" or "Ladies."
Note the sad difference between the sexes:
At a young age, girls are socialized to say that boys have cooties, are weird or gross - kinda like aliens - but they aren't taught to look down on boys. No girl ever calls another girl "you boy!" or "you penis!" to indicate contempt.
Boys, meanwhile, learn that femaleness is something despicable and worthy of scorn and disrespect. It's synonymous with weakness, fearfulness, cowardice, being beaten, being worthless, being the lowest of the low.
By some of the responses here, it seems that those little boys have a hard time unlearning their contempt, even when they grow up and call themselves progressive.
That's not strange. What's strange is that many of them seem deeply unwilling to examine their attitude. When it's pointed out to them, no matter how gently, they tend to bare their fangs and screech like cornered animals.