Some stories are just so incredible, you couldn't make them up. Apparently the lobbyists are attacking other on-line dictionaries (eg Google) and thesauruses as well. Oddly enough, despite lobbying in the name of 'equality', they only seem to want pejorative synonyms for women to be deleted - they have no issues with wanker, prick or dickhead.
AJ
Irrelevant anecdote:
When I was younger (much younger), I used to hang out with the horse-riding set (that would be 'horseback riding' in the US because we in the UK only ride the front of a horse while falling off). Whenever they did something wrong, the girls would typically berate themselves for being a 'stupid mare'.
AJ
the girls would typically berate themselves for being a 'stupid mare'.
Ah, conservative me! When I rode horseback, it weren't actually front or back. It was more like abaft the shoulders and afore the rump. More like a 'middling' solution.
As for them girls berating themselves, here in the US it would be them calling themselves 'stupid ____'. Pick a word that rhymes with 'runts.'
And that sorry old joke, What's the difference between a women's track team and a troupe of clever midgets? Ans: one is a bunch of cunning runts.
Ducking and running out of here...
Whenever they did something wrong, the girls would typically berate themselves for being a 'stupid mare'
Poor girlfriend material. Having your pommel bent when she falls off while riding cowgirl...
Whenever they did something wrong, the girls would typically berate themselves for being a 'stupid mare'.
So kennel maids would berate themselves for being stupid bitches..?
Engineering students = stupid wrenches...?
Political interns = stupid assholes..?
So kennel maids would berate themselves for being stupid bitches..?
And milkmaids would berate themselves for being stupid cows ...
I once knew a somewhat accident-prone girl who referred to herself as a clumsy heifer. I don't think she was from farming stock so I have no idea where that came from.
AJ
I don't think she was from farming stock so I have no idea where that came from.
From her parents probably, mom and/or dad called her that. A feminized version of the bull in a china shop meme.
These activists are obviously feminists and the current wave of feminists are not about equality, they're about female supremacy.
To these radicals men are the enemy and they couldn't care less about men or men's issues.
Postmodernists believe that to control issues, you need to control the language involving these issues. So by removing pejoratives for women from the language men won't be able to derogate women anymore and help alleviating male on female oppression.
You know, they're fighting the patriarchy.
And you know, they're allied with muslims!
And you know, they're allied with muslims!
Alas, me poor departed Mother, she was allied with Baptists!
Bitch
On another post I mentioned the problem University of Washington female athletes have as the UW mascot is the husky.
On another post I mentioned the problem University of Washington female athletes have as the UW mascot is the husky.
I've known quite a few husky gals in my time, and by virtually any measure 'husky' is less obnoxious than 'butch'!
Bitch
I rather enjoyed watching Anna Kendrick & Brittany Snow in 'Bitch Perfect'.
Anyone want to guess what it would take for those lobbyists to stop their bitching...?
:)
Anyone want to guess what it would take for those lobbyists to stop their bitching...?
Complete and total surrender maybe?
Anyone want to guess what it would take for those lobbyists to stop their bitching...?
Western society had never had it so good as when they could blithely complain about definitions and words, rather than hunger and war.
Reality shied away from the doors of their mind as if they were imprinted with a plague cross.
Thus read the epitaph of the modern era, and the dawn of the second dark age.
You optimist. You're just a glass half full kind of guy aren't you.
An optimist is one who sees a glass half full.
A pessimist is one who sees a glass half empty.
An engineer is wondering why they don't both use a smaller glass.
An optimist is one who sees a glass half full.
A pessimist is one who sees a glass half empty.
I see a glass thats 50% water and 50% air which makes it 100% full. What does that make me?
I see a glass thats 50% water and 50% air which makes it 100% full. What does that make me?
Depends on whether you are thirsty or suffocating.
ETALucky either way.
I see a glass thats 50% water and 50% air which makes it 100% full. What does that make me?
Air has a density 0.1275% compared to fresh water at sea level. By density it would make the glass 50.1275% full, firmly leaving you in pessimistic territory.
I see a glass thats 50% water and 50% air which makes it 100% full. What does that make me?
My chemistry professor daughter has a t-shirt which says exactly that, so perhaps a chemistry professor??
An engineer is wondering why they don't both use a smaller glass.
A realist understands that the glass is always full, after all, a drinking glass is not made to hold a vacuum. Just because half the glass is full of air doesn't make it empty. :)
A realist understands that the glass is always full, after all, a drinking glass is not made to hold a vacuum. Just because half the glass is full of air doesn't make it empty. :)
So are you suggesting that a realist never buys or uses a vacuum cleaner?
So are you suggesting that a realist never buys or uses a vacuum cleaner?
Why would they? After all, the realist knows that vacuum cleaners suck. ;-)
Why would they? After all, the realist knows that vacuum cleaners suck. ;-)
More to the point, what is there in a vacuum that would require the vacuum to need cleaning..? :)
So are you suggesting that a realist never buys or uses a vacuum cleaner?
Of course not. when was the last time you saw a vacuum cleaner small enough to fit in a drinking glass? I will however, suggest that vacuum cleaner is a misnomer since there is no actual vacuum involved in a vacuum cleaner.
Anyone want to guess what it would take for those lobbyists to stop their bitching...?
Money.
George Soros was funding radical feminism in Europe(Femin) until they tried to open a branch in Israel. He cut them off dead at that point.
At the same time funding for Trans lobbying went up. US funds for trans lobbying is over $200,000,000. Lesbians get just over $2,000,000.
All those lecturers in feminist studies need funds for their research so they can gain tenure, as well as jobs for their lab assistants / rats. The posturing over language is probably an attempt to show they are still useful idiots and should be funded again.
If I was a Christian politician I would offer them public funding on the basis that they shut up and stay in their Ivory Towers. But I am not Christian, or a politician and The civil service tax my funds, they don't let me disperse theirs. Sad!
I think the only time I had ever heard Mare as a pejorative was in Dr Horrible's Sing a Long Blog:
The Evil League of Evil is watching so beware!
The grade that you receive will be the last we swear!
So make the Bad Horse gleeful or he'll make you his mare!
And that's coming from a literal horse's mouth.
The campaign might work against the dictionary but it'll have no effect on the language. Language evolves by cultural selection not by fiat.
In conclusion, at my most badass I can make you want to take a shower.