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I would like you to do me a favor and think about what the words douche and douchebag actually mean. Can you understand that they are also insults to women, that they are misogynistic? To call a man a pussy is to insult him by equating him with what is female. Many homophobic type insults are really calling a man as less than a man, in other words, more female. They are insults because they are associated with women or femininity. Even the words like son of a bitch and motherfucker, implicate women as somehow a source or sin or inferiority.
Many myths of religious or mythical origin see women as the cause of trouble. Eve caused Adam to eat that apple. Pandora opened that box of troubles.
We actually have a modern myth that surrounds the Clintons. Hillary was a bitch, ball-buster, cunt, cold, wouldn't give head, dominated, is ugly, is ___________________ (fill in the blank) and actually caused Bill to get blow jobs from Monica. If she had only been on the job as a subservient wife tending to her sexual duties, all that dreadful stuff would never have happened. If not for Hillary, Bill would never have been a round-heeled slut who, although attractive to women, narcissistically hated to take no for an answer. If not for Hillary, we would never have had to deal with that embarassing impreachment, or had eight years of George W. Bush, or even had the war, the falling economy, the dominance of the right. And so on. Therefore Hillary is the root of all evil. To the right she is cunt because she allowed her husband to cheat on her and then conspired in his national contrition and forgivness. To the left, she caused Gore to "lose" the election because he couldn't call on Bill Clinton as a president of good reputation to campaign for him. If only she had been everything her husband needed, Monica wouldn't have happened. When a woman cheats, it's her fault. When a man cheats, it's his wife's fault.
Certain trolls on this thread are always calling on women to accept responsibility. Oddly enough, they also want women to accept responsibility for men's sexual choices and men's bad behavior.
