{"id":3094,"date":"2013-05-17T15:31:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T22:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genderratic.com\/?p=2983"},"modified":"2014-10-23T18:18:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T18:18:14","slug":"the-princess-and-the-pea-female-as-a-slur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/2013\/05\/17\/the-princess-and-the-pea-female-as-a-slur\/","title":{"rendered":"THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA \u2013 \u201cFemale\u201d as a slur"},"content":{"rendered":"

Believe it or not\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

Did you know that \u201cfemale\u201d is now considered a misogynistic slur in some quarters? <\/a>Oh yes, and you are a woman-hating oppressor if you don\u2019t fall into line.<\/p>\n

There several kinds of dysfunction on display in this one:<\/p>\n

First there is the appropriation of opprobrium over genuinely offensive and more to the point, actually dangerous terms such as \u201cnigger\u2019 or \u201cfaggot\u201d that have a long history of licensing actual violence, both mid to high level terrorist violence up to and including murder by torture. \u201cFemale\u201d? Not so much.<\/p>\n

But that doesn\u2019t stop them from trying, does it? It doesn\u2019t stop them from putting on the wounded little voices and let their big, round eyes brim with tears and when that has worked its usual magic of painting them as righteous victims, putting on their anger face and getting all serious and demanding that people take them and their heinous oppression seriously. Heinous indeed \u2013 you\u2019d think they had come home and found you had washed their favorite jeans or something.<\/p>\n

Of course there can be gender discrimination that doesn\u2019t quite reach the level of horror of lynching. So they are free to make the case as to how \u201cfemale\u201d gets us there.<\/p>\n

Then there is just the Orwellian totalitarianism of the exercise of power in presuming to dictate what words are acceptable or not. It\u2019s straight out of 1984. We\u2019re all very used to this kind of thing by now but it really never loses its power to disgust.<\/p>\n

And then finally there is the irritating attempt to make a mountain out of a molehill we call the Princess and the Pea. Is this all just about projecting power, imposing their will on the language? Is this about showing how dainty and hyper-sensitive they can be? Who knows, but it sure is pathetic.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Believe it or not\u2026\u2026 Did you know that \u201cfemale\u201d is now considered a misogynistic slur in some quarters? Oh yes, and you are a woman-hating oppressor if you don\u2019t fall into line. There several kinds of dysfunction on display in this one: First there is the appropriation of opprobrium over genuinely offensive and more to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":151800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"libsyn-item-id":0,"libsyn-show-id":0,"libsyn-post-error":"","libsyn-post-error_post-type":"","libsyn-post-error_post-permissions":"","libsyn-post-error_api":"","playlist-podcast-url":"","libsyn-episode-thumbnail":"","libsyn-episode-widescreen_image":"","libsyn-episode-blog_image":"","libsyn-episode-background_image":"","libsyn-post-episode-category-selection":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_thumbnail":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_theme":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_height":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_width":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_placement":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link_text":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_custom_color":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-explicit":"","libsyn-post-episode":"","libsyn-post-episode-update-id3":"","libsyn-post-episode-release-date":"","libsyn-post-episode-simple-download":"","libsyn-release-date":"","libsyn-post-update-release-date":"","libsyn-is_draft":"","libsyn-new-media-media":"","libsyn-post-episode-subtitle":"","libsyn-new-media-image":"","libsyn-post-episode-keywords":"","libsyn-post-itunes":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-season-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-type":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-title":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-author":"","libsyn-destination-releases":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-enabled":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-input-enabled":false,"libsyn-post-episode-premium_state":"","libsyn-episode-shortcode":"","libsyn-episode-embedurl":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[238],"tags":[220,263,338],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3094"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}