Please stop describing female TV personalities

[Mizmoon]

as "whores" or "whoring", "bitch", or "ugly".

Call them the things you would call a male commentator - stupid, a dumbass, rightwinger, etc. Okay, you might call a guy ugly, but admit that it's fairly rare. The point is it's not her beauty deficit that's ugly, it's her opinions.

I don't like Candy or Paula anymore than you do, but it's bad for all womankind when you use anti-female slurs against them.

** Okay, I see you folks disagree with me, but I still think you're going after their gender in a damaging way. The ends don't justify the means. **

[SlavesandBulldozers]

1. actually

"whore", in the term media-whore, is gender-neutral

Thus
Candy Kruller - WHORE
Tweety- Whore

[Joylaughter]

3. Men and Women can be

media whores! I agree.

[Mizmoon]

6. But that definition of whore

is like third down on the list. The first one is a person (usually a woman) who has sex for money.

Maybe we just disagree, but I'm uncomfortable with calling a woman a whore even when I mean media whore.

[luaneryder]

2. The term media whore

covers either sex the way I see it. I don't feel the term has anything to do with appearance, only sucking up to * and Co.

[TahitiNut]

4. How about "dickhead," "prick," or "brass balls"?

:shrug:

[tuvor]

5. I've seen about as many similar comments for the men.

Whores, bastards, ugly...

I guess YMMV.

[Carni]

7. I call the men whores and bitches

I'll call a media whore a WHORE when I see it.

[jezebel]

8. I'm a woman, and I think if they are going to act like whores, they should

be called whores. Male or female.

[cheshire]

9. Amen you sound like ignorant men when you talk like that.

[punpirate]

10. Hope you know the definition of whore....

In case you don't, it's someone who sells herself or himself. Yes, often, referring to women, but applies to men, as well. It's a really excellent term to describe much of the press today.

Tell you what--you call them what you want. The rest of us will just tell the truth about them. These people are subverting our democracy in exchange for money and fame. They don't deserve any respect. They are, in fact, engaging in prostitution.

Cheers.

[AlCzervik]

11. we call them all the same thing

male or female.

[K. F. Gibbons]

12. Can I borrow you high horse when your done.

[Mizmoon]

14. hmmmm ... interesting comment from a liberal n/t

[TaleWgnDg]

13. yes, indeed. and, in law, and in r/l, I couldn't agree w/ you more . . .

findlaw.com legal commentary hit the nail on the head at:

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20040921_mcclain.html
(as last visited Thursday, September 30, 2004)

"The 'Girlie Men' Slur and Similar Insults:
How They Show the Persistence of Sex-role Stereotypes
By JOANNA GROSSMAN AND LINDA MCCLAIN, Tuesday, Sep. 21, 2004"

[cali]

15. I couldn't

agree with you more.