to think it’s a bit depressing that women still use these terms against other women?

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I myself like the word poltroon and use it liberally

I prefer to use witch.
In saying that there are insults exclusive to men, dick-head, prick, wanker. I’ll stop now.

I saw a clip on Youtube (I think) of an argument between two people, one of whom accused the other of stealing his cat and he kept shouting "cat pervert" at the other person. I loved that. Haven't had much opportunity to use it on MN yet, alas.

But “childish queen bee woman” doesn’t have that ring to it. No offence, but it’s a shit insult.

Hmm just because someone is a woman, it doesn’t mean they are nice. I’ll happily describe my dh’s OW a cunt, slag, bitch, any of it really. I learnt at that moment that there was no sisterhood and since then I don’t trust anyone - man or woman.

Really? It could be argued that the significance given to 'cunt' shows reverence. Before we went secular, blasphemy was the worst swearing you could do. 'You hellhound' or 'She is Babylon' wouldn't have the same impact today!

For this thread's enjoyment: Scene from The New Art and Mystery of Gossiping, Being a Genuine Account of All the Women’s Clubs in and about the City and Suburbs of London, c.1760

You think women on MN go easier on men than other women?

Riiiiight

I has forgotten about that (conveniently).

Olivia Coleman's favourite swearword clip is much funnier and one I can actually relate to. Have you seen it?

Did she really behave like a bitch or a cow? I think she behaved like a childish queen bee woman.

And the c word should be banned. It is so nasty.

@HazelMember , have you seen an OW thread? If not, buckle up.
That's where you see some 'real' name calling and it's never by the men.

Its the word that’s misogynistic.

Heh. CAKETHIEF deserves to be a cruel epithet all by itself.

Well, the SIL STOLE HER SPECIAL CAKE!!! So, yes, anyone of either sex deserves all those epithets. If anybody stole my special GF cake, I would be incandescent with rage. Cake-stealers have it coming.

YANBU but I don't care very much.

Insults are gendered both ways - I would call a man a wanker, knob, dickhead, etc, far more readily than a woman. If the insult has anything to do with genitals, the tendency is to use the one relating to the target's sex.

Although I make liberal use of the word cunt, it still feels like the worst one so I'll call either sex a cunt if I want a strong epithet. I've got nothing against cunts 😂 and am quite fond of my own! It's unfortunate that none of the slang words for a penis carry the same weight, but it is what it is.

Motherfucker isn't in common use in the UK, but is more suited to men than women. Either sex can be an arsehole, we've all got one of those.

This is the internet. People will say what they want to. If it breaks the rules it gets taken down. If it doesn’t and you don’t like it, scroll on by. Women trying to limit what other women say is as bad as men doing it.
And RTFT, the SIL deserves criticism.

Olivia Colman has ‘always felt sort of non-binary’

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/16e9be90e9acf538

“I’ve never felt massively feminine in my being female. I’ve always described myself to my husband as a gay man. And he goes, ‘Yeah, I get that’. And so I do feel at home and at ease.

I agree.

Dictating how women should behave simply because we are women is pure misogyny.

I dislike the idea that women are never allowed to speak negatively against other women, even when it’s fully deserving. If a woman is acting bitchily, she’s a bitch. I don’t think it’s misogynistic to say that.

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Not particularly. I call my definitely male ex husband one too.

I personally think that it’s either a case of not being Kind enough, when sometimes Kindness isn’t the answer, or some warped idea that women should always be nice to each other because men are already horrible enough.

Well, that's a bit rich coming from a gay man.

OP doesn’t know if the people using these terms are women.

If cunt is good enough for Olivia Coleman, it's good enough for me.

Bitch and cow are pretty mild, to my mind. I would use both jokily face to face with female friends, and I certainly also use ‘bitch’, less jokily, to describe men who behave in ways that would attract the term ‘bitchy’ if they were women. I used to work with a definite male bitch.

Cunt isn’t one I use myself.