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You don’t think it’s rude for an elderly lady to respond to a young woman mispronouncing her name by “jokingly” calling her a prostitute? There is some dispute
by jacobolus 8y ago
You don’t think it’s rude for an elderly lady to respond to a young woman mispronouncing her name by “jokingly” calling her a prostitute?
There is some dispute about whether this famous insult actually happened though, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/11193714/Meet-Margot-Asquith-aprime-ministers-wife-who-was-more-vilified-than-Cherie....html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/11193714/Meet-Marg...
- windowsworkstoo 8y agoIt’s savage as fuck...still funny though
- PavlovsCat 8y agoSuch savagery is born out of weakness. To respond like that to a honest mistake is like slapping someone in the face for no reason at all. It's like a child saying something wrong to an adult and the adult just throwing it across the room, for no reason. There's no such thing as "no reason" though, and in this case it seems pretty easy to guess at the rough shapes of those reasons, and I find it hilarious that it seems to escape thousands, millions of people. I guess that is just one more pebble pointing to the wider alliance of the obedient with sociopaths that Arno Gruen described.