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A woman calling another a whore is misogyny? Being against promiscuity is misogyny?
by unlinker 10y ago
A woman calling another a whore is misogyny? Being against promiscuity is misogyny?
- vertex-four 10y agoBeing against female promiscuity while praising or ignoring male promiscuity is definitely misogyny. Edit: Additionally, being against both in the current society is, while not necessarily misogynist in itself, contributing to a misogynistic society - there's many more people who will speak up to tell a man that the weird-ass person who told them they're bad for being promiscuous is wrong then would tell a woman the same, the result being that telling a woman that she's bad for enjoying sex has more impact than telling a man the same. You don't actually see many masculine-gendered terms for shaming the enjoyment of sex, and those that do exist are not used in a derogatory context very often.
- unlinker 10y agoAnd how do you detect that with a bot that just skims through tweets? Nonsense.
- vertex-four 10y agoWell, how do you know that "whore" in all these cases was used as an insult to promiscuity, rather than a generic insult (with a certain bite) as it's more generally used, where a less sexually-focused insult might be used against men? We could, of course, just point out that this is a terrible study in general.
- dang 10y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11778783 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11778783 and marked it off-topic.