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AmericanActivist

(1,019 posts)
Thu Oct 20, 2016, 11:26 AM Oct 2016

Um, is "such a nasty woman" code for "bitch" when you are on TV?

It seems to me that this is the age old response that some men resort to when they encounter a smart, prepared, strong, assertive woman who refuses to be a doormat or dumb-down to make insecure men feel better. Like on the tip of his tongue was "bitch" but since he couldn't' say that he mutters "such a nasty woman" instead.


I am just thinking out loud here but no doubt this applies. And, what's more, I imagine that women who were part of the suffragette and suffragist movements were called names like this and worse.
It is the same chauvinistic and bullying attitude that women have dealt with throughout history. Not to mention Donald speaks with a forked tongue as he says, "nobody respects women more than me, nobody" while simultaneously insulting the woman standing on stage debating him.

As if it was not awful enough that, by some unknown miraculous revelation, the Billy Bush Bus tape led us in this election cycle to the issue of "grab them by the pussy" aka sexual assault which is appalling to the majority of women and triggering for many women who have been sexually assaulted throughout their lives. And, by the way, boys and men have also experienced sexual assault. There is more to delve into but I'll stop there due to time and space limitations.

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Um, is "such a nasty woman" code for "bitch" when you are on TV? (Original Post) AmericanActivist Oct 2016 OP
Again, another male on TV using the "nasty woman" phrase. AmericanActivist Oct 2016 #1
Pretty much... Wounded Bear Oct 2016 #2
Oh my gosh, thanks for that video clip from Delores Claiborne! Such a AmericanActivist Oct 2016 #3
I've linked it in several threads so far... Wounded Bear Oct 2016 #4
Your video reminded me of this quote from Delores Claiborne. AmericanActivist Oct 2016 #5
Strong women have always been vilified being labeled as 1 of 4 things:bitch, lesbian, slut or bimbo. AgadorSparticus Oct 2016 #6

Wounded Bear

(58,647 posts)
4. I've linked it in several threads so far...
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 12:28 PM
Oct 2016

Loving the ladies owning the "Nasty Woman" meme.

Still can't get over the one scene from that movie, where the girl looks in the mirror and sees the back of her own head. Gives me the willies just thinking about it.

AmericanActivist

(1,019 posts)
5. Your video reminded me of this quote from Delores Claiborne.
Sat Oct 22, 2016, 09:04 AM
Oct 2016
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"It's a depressingly masculine world we live in Delores."
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