The Tender Branson Repository of Sexist/Racist Posts and Pejoratives

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

Look, Sanders definitely has a chance.

The witch was once defeated by Obama and Sanders is already building a strong momentum accross the US.

The first thing you non-believing guys need to do, is to switch that button in your heads to "Yes, Bernie CAN defeat her". And then he eventually will. In the next months, more and more Democrats and Indys will see the light at the end of that filthy, bloodless tunnel called "Hillary Clinton" and switch over to the "real guy".

How is this "misogynistic" ?

This comment is only true for Hillary - not for other women. I'm a big champion for women's rights.

It is not misogynistic, as that would mean a post based on a belief that men are superior to women. It is pejorative in that it uses an insulting or disparaging term to describe Hillary. However, the question for Nagas is do you only intend to to put up posts that have pejoratives directed at women or will pejoratives used with men and male candidates go here as well? Why conflate misogyny and pejorative use?

The difference is that this is a specifically gendered pejorative. Nobody would describe Bill Clinton as a "witch".

And, in my experience, "asshole" and "bastard" are traditionally reserved for males. In most cases, need to insult a male, use a male insult, need to insult a female, use a female insult. There are, of course, gender neutral phrases such as "idiot", but those can only take us so far. What's your point?

Neither of those terms are gendered.

No, not explicitly. Thus, the phrase "in my experience". Men are sometimes called "bitches", even though the term is explicitly gendered, for God's sake.

when a man is called a pussy or a bitch, it's using femininity as a proxy for weakness. still an expression of misogyny.

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

Nagas, why do you obsess over certain posters and try to shame them constantly? This thread is getting increasingly bizarre. We all know DoucheAbides is a weird fellow. We get it. We don't need you to be on the sidelines yelling "I told you so1!!"

There is no obsession here; the majority of sexist/racist slights and remarks and consistently made by a select minority of posters: TB, Oldies, dudeabides, etc.

haha i never realised that tender branson had the same initials as total biscuit. that explains everything

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

There is a reason why this thread doesn't have a tenth of what the other thread for bad posts has

…because it's newer and less established?

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

#Berntards 

Hillary won, it wasn't even close.

Don't get me wrong, I like Bernie and I think Hillary is a witch, but how the hell is this sexist/racist? Because of the use of the word "retard?" Are we now that sensitive?

Yes. And thank you for posting that directly into this thread.

Honestly, having watched my youngest brother struggle with autism his entire life, I have a pretty damn good idea about what is and isn't an appropriate use of the term "retard." My brother would probably agree if he could, judging by his sense of humor. My brother Harry will sadly will probably never mentally advance beyond age ten, but I can tell already that he is a hell of lot more interesting and intelligent than you are .

this post is equivalent to the "i have a black friend" defense tbqh

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

Well thank you.  It's rare that a point is proven so well by somebody arguing against you.  Thanks man! 

Geez, 16%, I would have assumed it was lower.  You guys have a problem, and you seem to be totally oblivious to it.

Spin it anyway you want, dead0.  There are a lot of good discussion threads there with no silly restrictions.

*no silly restrictions as long as you don't make hokey cry