the etymology of "cunt" is shakespearean, so it's extremely british. i know a few kiwis and aussies that use the word prolifically as well, one of them called his own mother a cunt during a chat online. i don't know how it wound up being the paragon of gendered insults in the US, when "dick" is just about as mild an insult as you can come up with. i'm not sure i can think of an instance with friends where someone wasn't called a dick at some point.

I set up no straw man. I suspect you are attacking because you have no defense.

What's next, telling me I'm hysterical?

with white identity politics, the original and still most pervasive and powerful form of identity politics, so pervasive and powerful that many people here either do not or will not recognize it even exists, much less acknowledge its uber alles dominance. Same ol' same ol'. As is found on most any political website. Drowning in white people.

There is additionally the Reality that some members of this site are out-MRAoids.

As women are granted even more rights and power in society, the MRA movement is growing in both size and sheer screeching decibels, as men who simply will not tolerate being held down by the harsh, unyielding demands of the feminist movement let their voices be heard. To such advocates, the future is a bleak dystopia where men are kept in pens and robotically milked for sperm, while women rule the world with a manicured, moisturized iron fist . . . .

[Y]ou've seen quite a bit, and yet even you cannot fully comprehend the depths of pathos and self-loathing it would require to advocate the rights of people who have dominated everything since every time, ever. The only thing more pathetic than a man crying out for his rights as a man—as a direct result of women demanding their own—is a white guy bitching about being called a "cracker" . . . .

What we're talking about here is Internet Men's Activism, where the second someone makes a comment about women's rights, comment sections and inboxes instantly fill up with the cries of the poor downtrodden middle-class white male, mostly in the form of misspelled rants about c*nts and n-words, or off-topic bitching that misses the point so badly that we think they accidentally replied to the wrong article . . . .

Not long after this topic page was created, the comment section exploded with self-righteous man-children explaining why all the above is wrong and men are the most downtrodden of all people.

and generalizing it to the site. Obviously, there's an equal or greater number of people here who feel the exact opposite.

to make disdaining terms at ones own microgroup. Less of that here, we all try for the most part to use defined words when typing here.

I could be disparaging of other post-menopausal women, but OMG, only do that to women higher in the class ($$$$) rank. I am shocked and appalled. At me.

there is a difference between a derogatory term based on race and one based on gender, because gendered insults transcend race fundamentally. that's a semantic discussion though. i think you're misinterpreting my "infantilizing" comment, if that's what you're referring to. the idea that adults need things like intellectual safe spaces (READ: ARTIFICIAL, DELIBERATELY CONSTRUCTED ECHO CHAMBERS) is absolutely infantilizing. if these people have such a hard time dealing with dissent, well, as the french say, "welcome to the internet".

the best example of the kindergarten safety-safe space is right on dailyDERP, where we'd have a clinton safe space where all the clinton shills could get together and trash sanders supporters. try to push back and risk a ban. childish, catty bullshit from a bunch of identarian shills. it's echoes of "white is right" from the mid 20th century.

i take complaints on face value. if it's obvious someone is being unjustly persecuted, i'm there with furious anger. if someone's complaining about something because they have incredibly thin skin, i'll sit back and watch the train wreck. it's a case-by-case basis, and should be... especially online, where you say you're a black woman and you're really a 30 year old male looking to up your SJW street cred, even if only in your own mind.

my comments on the term "native american" were not directed at you, just a swipe at the pc culture in general. i worked in a factory in south dakota for a while that employed a bunch of mexicans, and the management insisted on calling them "south americans" in some weird attempt at PC lingo. the mexicans, in response, started calling themselves "mexicano", because mexico is not in south america. they had a point, because the people that were employing them saw their national identity as somehow insulting, and there really wasn't much the employees could do about it, because many, if not most of them were illegal. (heh)

again, i don't use the word "bitch" as a gendered insult. this is more context. if i'm going to call someone a bitch it's going to be in the prison sense, someone that can't carry their weight, someone that is easily dominated. i don't tend to call women bitches unless they fit this criteria, but i will admit that "bitch" as a gendered term is on par with "dick" as a gendered term, should you choose to see them through a gendered lens: both are pretty ubiquitous, both are pretty mild, and both are pretty interchangeable gender-wise.

i'm not suggesting that the problem exists here, in fact that's part of the reason i like this site. but the problem very, very clearly exists, it's at the core of the clinton campaign. when clinton supporters talk about all dissenters being sexist, there you go. it's ironic that they've gone with the "OMG SHE'S CRAY CRAY" trope vs. jill stein, something that i would argue is one fuck of a lot more sexist than any sort of mainstream dissent of clinton has ever been.

there is no difference between a derogatory term based on race and one based on gender,

There is one fairly significant difference. Racial terms like "nigger" or "redskin" have connections to race based murders. I'm fairly certain that female based derogatory terms don't have even remotely the same type of association. I mean, "bitch" has a slew of meanings, none of which pertain to the hunting down and murdering of women, and definitely not the word "cunt." Yeah, I grant that they're said during rapes and assaults, but so are racial slurs.

Interestingly, I'd say that "cunt" is actually the least misogynistic, as it is a word that references to the entirety of a woman's genitalia, including the pleasure causing parts, as opposed to "vagina," which reduces a woman's genitalia to just the birthing canal. Kinda seems like the "proper, polite" term implies that women are just baby growing incubators, and the "naughty, taboo" word acknowledges that women can enjoy sex.