Why does MN allow such sexist language?

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wordfactory · 21/06/2012 08:35

I've just read the Cherie Blair thread and I'm shocked at some of the sexist language.

Ugly pig. Sanctimonious bitch. Evil cow.

Why is this ok?

Why can we not use the 'n' word here on MN, but posters can use outright sexist langauage? And why do posters ignore it, just because it supports their case?

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wordfactory · 21/06/2012 09:24

I'm just gobsmacked at the vitriol. But also how the vitriol seems so couched in sexism.

By all means say CB doesn't know what she's talking about. Or explain where you think she's wrong. But attacking her as a woman is all wrong to me.

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FrothyDragon · 21/06/2012 09:22

No, they don't imsotired.

Wordfactory, it's because it's "OK to hate women". No-one admits to doing it, but once you look around, you see so many people doing it. Which is really quite depressing...

MarthasHarbour · 21/06/2012 09:21

i agree, i have no real opinion either way of CB but i found the thread unnecessarily harsh.

also i could kind of see what she was getting at, just in a clunky cack handed kind of way.

imsotired · 21/06/2012 09:18

get real, they talk about blokes on here in as equal and horrible terms too.

PlentyOfPubeGardens · 21/06/2012 09:17

Because hate speech against women isn't illegal whereas other forms of hate speech are?

namechangeguy · 21/06/2012 09:14

I can't find it. Can you post a link please?

EatsBrainsAndLeaves · 21/06/2012 09:07

Because even here women still have a lower status than men. Sexism doesn't really matter. You see the same dynamic in terms of how MNHQ think of transphobia. Very sad on a site aimed at woman. But then mumsnet is not an island. MNHQ and the site itself reflects the wider misogyny of society

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