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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
No one yet has come up with an equivalent insult to cunt that is routinely applied to white males and has the same level of insult.
You are correct. Cunt equates to nigger in insult level. It imply not an insult to female-ascribed attributes as does bitch, but rather than femaleness itself. Even a nice and inoffensive sweet-and-submissive-in-every-way-woman could still be called a cunt. The insult is to the gender entire as well as to the particular woman. That is why any one who uses it is either misogynistic or else adopting it in the same way that rap songs have used the word nigger. Those turn-the-tables reactions to insult are not a good idea in my opinion.
So why do white males not have a disgusting name that is at the same level of insult? Because they are they ones with more power. People get insulted in that manner only when they can be set apart as an inferior other.
The arrival of these articles of clothing bearing this insult to Clinton are an indication that misogyny fuels much of anti-Clinton feeling. A white man who had precisely Clinton's own political record could not and would not be insulted in that particular manner.
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