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

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I’ve noticed that the harshest, most misogynistic insults on mumsnet I hear are actually coming from women directed at other women. Words like cunt, bitch, cow, etc.

When men are criticised, the language often seems much milder or at least less specifically gendered.

Is it internalised misogyny? Habit? Just how people speak now?

You've hardly removed yourself from the conversation, have you? You focused upon that in your posts on the thread and have now started a TAAT to try to drum up support for your position.

Last time I looked, TAATs weren't in the spirit, by the way.

How did I start a TAAT? Someone asked for an example and I gave one. There are thousands of others.

Are we not allowed to call out other women? Being a woman doesn’t make you good

You started this thread minutes after posting on that one, criticising people's language, rather than addressing the treatment the OP had received from the relative (on the basis of her autoimmune disease, which is a Protected Characteristic, by the way). It's not a coincidence that it suddenly occurred to you to start a thread criticising people's language straight afterwards.

Where was that said?

Report it then.

Why do I need to address the treatment the OP had received from the relative (on the basis of her autoimmune disease, which is a Protected Characteristic, by the way)?

Are you HR?

I find "mingebag" quite a flexible insult, or the Irish variant "geebag" (with a hard G sound like in "geese").

🤣🤣

I'm a bit baffled as to why you call this misogyny?
Misogny is hatred of women.
I don't see why someone with fixed ideas about how women should behave is more likely to be a misogynist than anyone else.

CBA, really. I reserve my reporting for online beggars and racists.

There's always somebody who picks up on SPAG, language or tone whilst ignoring the content that actually matters. They just don't usually start a TAAT when they aren't happy with the rest of the thread for failing to turn and focus upon the diversion whilst pretending it's just a coincidence.

Are you from Liverpool?
I’ve never heard it and wasn’t aware it was used elsewhere haha

I’d only ever use it to call someone tight/stingy?

Although, I’d use it for a male or female - I might be a potty mouth but I’m no misogynist.

No I can’t. But I can choose never to be in their company.

I must admit, I think to myself "poor cow" sometimes. Usually if I see a heavily pregnant woman on a hot day. I also think it whenever I see any animal struggling in pregnancy or birth, regardless of if that animal is indeed a cow. I don't know why. It feels like a term of endearment

You can do it without using misogynistic insults.

I do this and completely agree about the term of endearment thing.

Dick, prick, cock, cocksucker, nob/knob, bellend, jeb, wanker, dickhead, motherfucker... etc etc.

Admittedly, they don't carry the same weight as a well executed CUNT.

Should we use gender neutral terms of abuse? Arse, arsewipe, bumhead?

The bottom would be the main feature in gender neutral terms then and very limited.

edit, and I do agree on the well executed cunt, it’s satisfying when no other word is (said often by me in an empty room at some inanimate object that’s managed to piss me off).

We might see an emergence of 'nipple'

'You fucking nipple!'

Works, sort of...

Yes, that’d work. Bastard navel?

"That fucking sphincter SIL stole my cake"

🤣 That’s actually a very good one!

walking to school this morning with the smaller child group of teenage girls walk by one is shouting into her phone and just goes “you absolute wet wipe”

now if that was for my child’s benefit or what she would genuinely say I must say it gave me and the smaller one a good laugh.

So Wetwipe is on our behave rude list.

😂😂😂😂

Bastard is out too imho

Course, rookie error.