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03-06-2012, 01:53 PM | #16 |
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Bitch means "you are a woman, who is acting negatively", or "you are acting negatively and I want to paint you with a feminine epithet for increased effect". in both cases, it's implied that the being a woman part of the term is meant to increase the negativity of the term.
Slut, however, means "you are immoral, and have too much sex", and is almost always applied negatively only to women. it implies trashiness and a lack of personal worth or value. But it also means "sex is bad"... and that's already becoming a position wildly out of touch with anyone who isn't a Limbaugh fan or a Westboro Baptist or whatever. Slut shaming is becoming more and more rejected by society. Slutwalks are an increasingly common sort of protest march. Quote:
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It wasn't a challenge, merely a question, sorry if it came off differently I don't find them particularly different in this context of use. You and Ibram have both touched on what I feel about it really -it says more about the person who resorts to the name-calling, and it's about damn time women just didn't let "slut" hurt them any more than "bitch". words like this just need to be reclaimed until there are no more left. But I wouldn't be surprised to find I'm in the minority about that. I think all this "bad words" thing is ridiculous. And I don't feel any need to take a stand against this Lindburgh chap because he's already been outclassed and shown up by his "victim". Good for her.
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03-06-2012, 02:42 PM | #19 | |
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the partisanship isn't the issue. It's the offensiveness and disgusting personal attacks.
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I think they are very different.
Bitch is always a woman or an insult to a man by calling him a woman. You can be a bitch one day, and then not be a bitch the next. It's about attitude. Or maybe you are always a bitch. But then that's just the way you are. (Not you, Monster.) Slut is someone who is promiscuous. But in a bad way. And using that word is making a judgement on the worth of the person forever. They are unclean. In the gutter. The lowest. |
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He's losing advertisers...I think the count is up to 30.
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03-06-2012, 03:00 PM | #25 | |
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IMO, Rush shouldn't be on ANY radio.
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03-06-2012, 03:04 PM | #26 |
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They're both loud and bombastic, and tend to have a rhetorical style similar to Rush's, but neither are particularly extreme by my reckoning. What exactly makes them extreme, other than being loud and slightly angry all the time?
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03-06-2012, 03:04 PM | #27 |
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Well then I'm completely opposed to that. Give the troops entertainment, but not politics.
Rush Limbaugh routinely mocks the commander in chief. How can they justify broadcasting that over official channels? He foments insubordination. That's just nuts that he would be carried. |
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03-06-2012, 03:13 PM | #30 | |
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Any of our stateside military folks can help clarify, but that's my understanding of AFN's guiding principle, at least overseas. Keep in mind that I had AFN TV (and I assume radio if I'd looked for it) while I was living in Taiwan.
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