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In reply to the discussion: Are you okay with the right wing calling Hillary Clinton a bitch? [View all]AndreaCG
(2,331 posts)91. It's not a great term
I've been guilty of using it. I try not to. But it's ironic in my opinion because Hillary may have her faults but her demeanor is not one of them. She is extremely civil for the most part, as befits a former Secretary of State, which is particularly remarkable because she's been dealing with the rabid right wingers irrationality about her and her husband for decades. If anyone has earned the right to be snarky with her critics she has. But more often than not she refrains from doing so.
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Are you okay with the right wing calling Hillary Clinton a bitch? [View all]
Luminous Animal
Jul 2014
OP
What I'm saying is, if you really do "reserve the right to curse out anyone".....
moriah
Jul 2014
#12
Those consequences may also be legal ones, despite you thinking it's protected speech.
moriah
Jul 2014
#22
So, you are okay with calling Obama a n****r. Because, you know. Free speech!
Luminous Animal
Jul 2014
#58
The first amendment applies to government prosecution, etc., not to your opinion.
merrily
Jul 2014
#61
Not true, when you continue to ignore the nastiness, it tends to increase in volume....
AuntPatsy
Jul 2014
#5
agree, I don't care what the right calls her. I care about what we call her. As long as it's not
Katashi_itto
Jul 2014
#73
Not to mention there are plenty of profane insults one can use which don't necessarily invoke gender
nomorenomore08
Jul 2014
#65
Why doesn't it? Do you how long it takes to proudly own the title of Bitch? I worked long and hard
Hestia
Jul 2014
#50
Really. I watched my daughter being called a bitch because she didn't smile when a random stranger
Luminous Animal
Jul 2014
#62
No. But I'm fine with the left wing calling her a pro wall street middle of the roader nt.
el_bryanto
Jul 2014
#20
There are DUers who will call and raise ANYTHING that she is called by the right.
11 Bravo
Jul 2014
#30
I am not okay with the right wing calling ANYBODY a bitch. Why limit it to Clinton?
djean111
Jul 2014
#32
I don't care one way or the other. Polite political discourse is a thing of the past...
badtoworse
Jul 2014
#37
It would be better if they didn't do it, but why should anybody be surprised?
tularetom
Jul 2014
#42
If the real-world result is that it contributes substantially to them losing a big election to her
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2014
#53
I don't think the word should be banned but it's an ugly word I never use
aint_no_life_nowhere
Jul 2014
#64
That's fiction, though. I've laughed at plenty of things in movies that would horrify me IRL. n/t
nomorenomore08
Jul 2014
#67
It's expected from the GOP and I can't say much since I've call GOP women a whole lot worse.
Vinca
Jul 2014
#74
I oppose their very existence so I would oppose them calling her a child of God.
TheKentuckian
Jul 2014
#93