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Showing Original Post only (View all)Why are people proud to be "nasty women"? [View all]
I don't get it. It's like when Trump supporters are happy to be called "deplorables". I would not want to be owning a negative perception of myself, I'd rather blast the person for name calling and refer to myself in positive terms like "strong woman" etc.
I do not understand this phenom.
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Maybe the point is that hillary is a nasty woman then they are proud to be like her. N/t
ScienceIsGood
Oct 2016
#1
Trump called Hillary a nasty woman. If she is a nasty woman, then I am one too.
boston bean
Oct 2016
#2
Ditto the first two comments. Also here is another interpretation as icing on the cake:
ColemanMaskell
Oct 2016
#6
Oppressed populations often embrace pejorative terms to take away their power.
Brickbat
Oct 2016
#11
It's due to Janet Jackson's song Nasty a huge hit in the 1980's. It was part of a larger cultural
okaawhatever
Oct 2016
#22
LOL. It was pretty rich of Trump to say that considering he's America's #1 Anchor Husband. nt
okaawhatever
Oct 2016
#43
He called her a nasty woman for biting back at his bullying and attacks. If that makes a woman
PeaceNikki
Oct 2016
#31
When a would be fascist dictator and the wannabe destroyer of democracy
workinclasszero
Oct 2016
#38