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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions
KohlaParasaurus · 24/08/2023 16:07

The expression that jumps to my mind is "big baby", but I don't want to give the individual concerned ideas.

NeverDropYourMooncup · 24/08/2023 16:06

I'm all for equal opportunities in insults and unfortunately, the judge clearly obviously hasn't heard many deeply pissed off women in full flow

Tosser is clearly a gender neutral term of address for all drivers, as is anything beginning with Knob.

Ugh, her? Yeah, she's being a Fucking Twat again.

She's being a complete knob about this.

Stop fannying about, you could get a fucking bus through there (of course I am channelling my best Influenced By American TV for context).

Look where you're going, fucking arsehole.

Rachel's being particularly dickish about this today.

One I was rather proud of on holiday was an instantaneous 'C'est sur rouge, CON!', followed by 'Oh, casse-toi, fuckin' knob'ead'. Not entirely certain where in my teenage years I absorbed the knowledge for that (Year 8, I suspect), but it came out of somewhere deep inside my head and in my broadest childhood South London accent. Right classy, me.

And then there are other completely neutral portmanteau.

With some leaps in logic, Twat would, however, appear to be the most appropriate - reverse engineering an acronym covers all bases.

RavingStone · 24/08/2023 15:47

CurseYouPerryThePlatypus · 24/08/2023 14:17

Would they have experienced trans joy if they’d been called a bitch instead 🤔

I dunno. My gay male friends call each other bitches all the time.

As pp said, it's never Karen is it? And yet this kind of behaviour would fit the supposed meaning. Maybe I will start using it after all?

Ereshkigalangcleg · 24/08/2023 15:45

Would they have experienced trans joy if they’d been called a bitch instead

Quite possibly!

jellyfrizz · 24/08/2023 15:38

JustFrustrated · 24/08/2023 12:29

Weirdly, same. I only use it when driving or in relation to drivers.

E.g. on 5th AVE in NYC the other day called some prat in an Escalade "a tosser" much to DHs amusement and the confusion of the Canadians/Americans near us.

(Tbf he was driving like a tosser).

Outside of driving related incidences, never use it.

Am quite enjoying "prat" at the moment.

😆I was just thinking the same about tosser - gender neutral and specifically for drivers.

Boiledbeetle · 24/08/2023 15:17

There will be people having conniptions reading this thread!

IcakethereforeIam · 24/08/2023 15:16

Arguably, considering how some neovaginas are constructed, some people have.... I think I better stop there. I may already have gone too far!

Datun · 24/08/2023 15:13

'Buswanker' quips an Inbetweeners fan on Twitter 🤣

PatatiPatatras · 24/08/2023 15:12

Putain!

Heliotroper · 24/08/2023 15:07

Arsehole fits the bill

Everyone has got one!

Rudderneck · 24/08/2023 15:00

I always thought of wanker as male, I think because wank rhymes with yank. As in, I am yanking on my genitalia. That's bad etymology, obviously.

Anyway, we really can't be controlling how others insult us, that's a fast road to authoritarianism.

Chersfrozenface · 24/08/2023 14:30

CriticalCondition · 24/08/2023 14:25

I think TWs deserve their own words. How about twanker?

After all, I'm sure Widow Twanky must fall under the great trans umbrella.

Good point.

And there,'s already 'twonk', of course.

CriticalCondition · 24/08/2023 14:25

I think TWs deserve their own words. How about twanker?

After all, I'm sure Widow Twanky must fall under the great trans umbrella.

Chersfrozenface · 24/08/2023 14:24

Plonker, wazzock and (chuffin') muffin would all he fine, obviously.

Allthegoodnamesarechosen · 24/08/2023 14:24

So ‘ugly cow’ would be okay then?

ImFineThankYouSusan · 24/08/2023 14:17

ErrolTheDragon · 24/08/2023 12:41

Yes, it's downright sexist to assume that 'wanker' is a sexed insult! Does this TW not know anything about women?ConfusedGrin

I think we know the answer to that.

CurseYouPerryThePlatypus · 24/08/2023 14:17

Would they have experienced trans joy if they’d been called a bitch instead 🤔

ArabeIIaScott · 24/08/2023 14:15

Fannybaws is entirely gender neutral.

Chersfrozenface · 24/08/2023 14:13

Not that I've ever used it myself, but it would be a crying shame to restrict the use of the Scottish 'bawbag'.

Also, are 'wankbadger', 'fucknugget', 'fuckbustard' and 'shitgibbon' sufficiently gender neutral?

(Not working on a dictionary at all, oh no.)

Boiledbeetle · 24/08/2023 14:05

Off the top of my head I've called women a wanker and a cock and a knob-head, and I've called men a cunt a bitch a fanny and a tit.

I'm sure i could come up with plenty more I've used over the years as well.

PinkFrogss · 24/08/2023 13:59

A minority of the tribunal disagreed with a witness for the respondent who said that “wanker” was a gender neutral term. I think the headline is overegging it slightly.

MrsOvertonsWindow · 24/08/2023 13:29

This seems to be an overreach on the part of the Employment Tribunal? Perhaps a result of all the secret (don't tell the public what we're doing) trans training that's been offered to the judiciary?
They have no business legislating on how that word may be used by the public. I mean - where does that leave use of the word "cunt"?

Yet another of thousands of examples of how this anti democratic ideology attempts to force the rest of society to operate in their favour.

Whatswhatwhichiswhich · 24/08/2023 13:27

This is exactly why I’m not a supporter or ally to any trans person anymore.

ArabeIIaScott · 24/08/2023 13:02

ErrolTheDragon · 24/08/2023 12:41

Yes, it's downright sexist to assume that 'wanker' is a sexed insult! Does this TW not know anything about women?ConfusedGrin

To be fair to the TW, the particular bullshit about wanker being 'gendered' appears to have been largely promulgated by the judge.

Datun · 24/08/2023 13:02

Ereshkigalangcleg · 24/08/2023 12:52

Why would "wanker" be gender specific even if you did think it was all about the penis? There are plenty of "women" with penises, according to this ideology.

Haha! Quite.

Admitting that a penis is an exclusively male appendage seems something of a self own.