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obamanut2012
(26,068 posts)Lackey, minion, stooge -- all better words to use.
Casual sexism and gendered language is still sexism and gendered language, even when used against sociopaths.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)The other day I saw people lament that astronaut Alexander Gerst behaved like a sociopath and racist towards the robot CIMON when he was field-testing it aboard the ISS.
https://gizmodo.com/in-video-debut-cimon-the-iss-robot-throws-an-unexpecte-1830768737
1. He displayed body-language towards the robot that might or might not have been aggressive!
2. When the robot had a malfunction, wouldn't exit music-mode and accused him of being not nice, the astronaut dared to make an annoyed quip!
3. When another astronaut showed up, Alexander Gerst downplayed the accusations of the malfunctioning robot, which is a clear sign that Alexander Gerst is an abuser and sociopath!
OMG, can you believe that?
Can you believe that an astronaut would treat a defective chatbot as anything but a person?
And the astronaut is definitely also a racist because something-something white people.
We have some really serious issues to deal with these days. Sometimes we need to lighten up!
PJMcK
(22,035 posts)I've never understood why posters are willing to imply certain words but try to "hide" them by using asterisks. Like the reader doesn't know which word the writer means!
If you're going to curse, have at it! We're all adults and can handle so-called blue language. Otherwise, dig out your thesaurus and find a better word. English is a profoundly diverse and rich language so use it.
Otherwise, a writer just looks like a jackass.
It reminds me of a story that I unfortunately cannot remember the specific details. A famous author had written a somewhat racy book in which he repeatedly used "fug" in place of "fuck." (I believe his publisher insisted on this substitution.) At a book release party, the author was introduced to a famous and elegant actress. When the introductions were completed, she said, "Oh, you're the guy who doesn't know how to spell fuck!"
RobertDevereaux
(1,857 posts)In Im guessing The Naked and the Dead.
As much as the youthful Norman Mailer may have enjoyed inflating his self-image by inundating friend and foe with a superheated geyser of fucks, his favorite word wasnt acceptable for the printed page in 1948. The disgruntled (read pissed-off) Mailer was forced to substitute the word fug for fuck in his gritty war novel The Naked and the Dead. The story goes that this prompted the waggish starlet Tallulah Bankhead to say upon first meeting Mailer, So youre the young man who cant spell fuck. If Mailer never wanted to seeor sayanother fug in his life, there was a counterculture rock group that thought the euphemism was the ideal name to have to stick it to the establishment of the 1960s.
PJMcK
(22,035 posts)Thanks, RobertDevereaux. I thought it was Mr. Mailer but I wasn't sure. I also thought it was Katherine Hepburn so I'm glad to have the correct information.
Enjoy your day.
LexVegas
(6,060 posts)Rizen
(708 posts)as long as Russia is a white country.
orangecrush
(19,546 posts)mtngirl47
(989 posts)is "letting in so many 3rd worlders" (read: brown people) into our country.
He praised Russia for being a white country. There is no doubt--the support for Trump is about racism.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)to putin's ridicule.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)The good old days When America Was Great.
GoCubsGo
(32,080 posts)I look forward to the day when those "cyberbombs" he had planted in the Russian Internet get detonated.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)I can be rough on the edges, but I try to avoid gender insult language.
I agree totally with your sentiment, just not your choice of expressing it.