Yes, this is still a racist, sexist, unequal world.

[KitSileya]

239. And again I have to say that you know there's a difference between an in-group use of a slur.

The re-appropriation of a slur is quite different from using the slur as a slur, and you know that very well. BlueCaliDem wasn't reclaiming the slur - he or she was using it as a slur. that is very clear, and as such, it is misogynistic slur used on a woman, and that causes the reaction. Your patter about 'carving out groups of women' and female group leaders is ridiculous, and you know it. BlueCaliDem used the b-word as a slur against a woman, and we reacted. That some feminists employ the strategy of reclaiming that word among themselves is really irrelevant, because that wasn't what BlueCaliDem did. That should be clear - "That image is disgusting. But that's maybe because I'm not a rich, White, privileged socialite b***h." How anyone can think that the slur was used in a reclaimed fashion, i.e., used by an oppressed group among themselves to turn it into something positive, is beyond me.

Whether oppressed groups should reclaim such slurs is a different discussion - and one that feminists and other groups may disagree on...because no oppressed group is monolithical. Both Martin Luther King, jr. and Malcom X were opponents of racism, even if they disagreed on how to combat it. Malcolm X may have thought that MLK, jr was duped by whites when he advocated non-violence, but that doesn't make either of them less relevant as leaders of the Civil Rights Movement.