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bearfartinthewoods Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-07-04 08:14 AM
Response to Reply #30
56. find any dictionary that doesn't include female in the definition.
there may be one but everywhere i checked it female is mentioned and male is not..

besides..neither you nor i nor slink are the final arbitare of language. so set that aside and explain to me why you cannot extend a courtesy to slink and the other women who have expressed their sense of offense.

instead of focusing on the why, explain the why not. why not accomadate the sensitivities of a significant portion of our community?

what it so damn important that you call women bitches.

it took just one person pointing out that i was using the word gay to refer to homosexual men and women when it was more appropriate to refer to the entirty of the community as GLBT, for me to adjust my speech.

why is there so much resistance? we don't use wop and kike and chink and fag and nigger but there is this contingant that seems to have drawn the line at the foot of the women who protest and refuse to appreciate their offense at bitch and i really want to understand why.
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