"Let's keep the misogynist Hillary hate-wear coming! Send pics or links to broadsheet@salon.com."

Oh good. So whenever we find some loser who comes up with some crude and stupid way of insulting women and Hillary, we should give them as much publicity as possible.

To what purpose? Attention is what these assholes crave. Giving them publicity will only encourage more of this sort of behavior. In the case of CitizensUnitedNotIntimidated.org, publicity will actually make money for the dickhead behind it.

But Broadsheet wants more, more!

I'm afraid you'll need more than a few crude pottyshirts to make Hillary a sympathetic character. In the meantime, you're empowering a bunch of really vile characters.

Doesn't that make you feel proud?

Of course no one would make up a shirt for Obama using a similarly inflammatory word. That would mean a righteous ass-whupping.

-- Herself

First of all, it sorta depends on where you are. But then again, I've been called nigger and I've never been to the South! And, yes, I guess it was in the same place that someone called me a cunt (not by a "redneck" but by a progressive vegan "hippie".)

All of these attempts to create a gender vs. race war ends up hurting the very people (women and people of color) who are being forced to engage in the charade. Really, you can't talk about gender bias without talking about racism, and for that matter, classism. Until we acknowledge that all of these "isms" come from the same deep well, we're all sunk.

Finally, gender bias, while being inextricably linked to both racism and classism, is more upfront, which gives people allowance for these vile attacks on Hillary. I think after all of the ugly violence (not to mention slavery) done against blacks in this county by whites has made racism a more publically shameful affair, so white people are less likely to vocalize it. Doesn't mean it's not there. And to those that complain that broadsheet is relegated to the "pink ghetto," please examine your own actions and rhetoric and then think about that accusation.

--TB

There is an insult for white men (or any man) and you know what it is.

It's the greatest insult to any man and it translates universally around the globe in every language. I asked a linguist on this point once and he agreed that as far as he knew, it was the greatest insult to a male in every language he could think of.

Also, I don't approve of insulting Mr. Obama. I'm a Hillary supporter but if he gets the nod, I'll totally back him.

I'm saying, we ladies can reclaim the word "cunt" just like African Americans reclaimed their word.

Men can't reclaim their nasty insult word. Or rather, I doubt they'd have the, um, cajones to do so. It would be awesome to see that can of worms get opened!

Yo! Cunt Lover!

Have you ever seen those t-shirts alluding to President Bush?

no?!?

(I don't like Bush and I'm not crazy about hillary manically clawing at the throne either. But t-shirts are going to happen. I like Ohio State football. I bought a t-shirt for a dollar which says "Muck Fichigan". I don't necessarily feel that way, but it was really cold, I needed an extra layer, and it was kind of fun. I don't really mind people from Michigan, but I own a shirt which suggests otherwise. People dress up at halloween too!)

Are you trying to say that you would approve of the use of the word nigger used as an insult against Barack Obama? I haven't seen it yet, but should he continue to be politically successful at a national level, then I am sure it is coming from the bigoted, the ignorant, and the childish.

Will you be so cavalier about such insults then?

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.

For all of you who feel that your hatred of country music and the obvious white trash who like it has been further vindicated by this vulgar display, let me assure you that these same people are ashamed and distraught. The Salon Seal Of Approval is what they (and all of us, frankly) strive for. Apologies will be forthcoming.

Cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt CUNT cunt cunt cunt CUNT cunt cunt cunt CUNT CUNT CUNT CUNT . . .

It's just a word, ladies. Have we learned nothing from the African American contingent? Use it, or have it used against you.

Yo! Cunt!

Yeah they're that crazy and that stupid. Hell, I bet John Gibson from Fox will try. These dopes have been sucking their own fumes for so long they'd think they're heroes.

No. How about some plain old civility?

You don't call a black person a nigger. You don't call a Jewish person a kike. You don't call a Japanese person a gook. You don't call a man a dick. (Are there similar T-shirts for Dick Cheney? I don't think so.) You don't call a woman a cunt.

And you certainly don't do those things and laugh about it.