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In reply to the discussion: What's a good substitute for "whore"? [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)But that does not make the word itself gender-neutral. it's like "bitch" in that way. Both "whore" and "bitch" when used as insults, are strongly associated with using woman-ness as an insult.
Your male politician being called a whore - is he penetrating the party buying his "services" or is he the one doing the penetrating? The overwhelming connotation is that he's the "bottom" in this transaction, isn't it? A position usually regarded as "feminizing" - coming back around, "being somebody's bitch."
There is a LOT tp unpack in there, and I do think there's likely someone else here on DU who can do a better job of it.
And it's rather irrelevant in the context spurring this discussion - Hillary Clinton is not a man.
And i'm 32, so no, I don't think it's "generational."