Is ‘dick’ as bad an insult?
To even imply that it might be would be to be completely ignorant of our culture’s history of misogyny.
Either all gendered insults are okay or they’re all unacceptable. I say they’re all okay. That same standard should be applied to all categories by the way.
Is ‘dick’ as bad an insult?
To even imply that it might be would be to be completely ignorant of our culture’s history of misogyny.
Maybe in the future if men and women swap power dynamics then “dick” will be unacceptable. Ideally, we’d live in a truly equal world, but even then we’d have to be generations removed to get away from the history of the words. But yes, in this ideal future, gendered insults would all be okay. But that’s not the world we live in now.
This is a good post.