Reply #12: It is like calling a woman a "son of a bitch"

[cosmik debris]

The term has no explanatory value. It has no descriptive value. It does not elucidate or illuminate. It is factually incorrect. It has only one purpose, to insult.

If it is the intent to insult a woman, calling her a "son of a bitch" is certainly effective. But there is no other value in that statement but to give offense. And it certainly doesn't elevate the esteem of the insulter to be seen mis-using the language so blatantly.

The same is true for the terms "Evangelical/Fundamentalist Atheist".