'Cock', 'dickhead' and 'prick'

[golfsale]

Should feminists refrain from using gendered insults such as 'cock', 'dickhead' and 'prick'?

Yes they should. Do you know any who do? Feminists, I mean - not just people in general.

Not necessarily. If they are equal opportunity insulters.

In an ideal world, nobody should be nasty, we should all just argue our points with respect etc etc, but we don't live in that world, and feminists shouldn't be held to a higher standard than any other reasonable person. If I want to tell someone to cock off, particularly a sexist twat of a man (equal usage there, y'see?), then I will, thanks very much. And the whiners who make posters of baby boys scrawled in "gendered abuse" to bewail their treatment on mumsnet are wankers.

Language flows from society, with an element of blowback, sure, but if you try to fetishize policing people's language as an agent of change while taking the focus off the structural change that is really important, then you are just obfuscating the real issues. It's like hearing the alarm on the Titanic, and rushing to rearrange the deckchairs.

"Not necessarily. If they are equal opportunity insulters."

amazeballs! genius!

stop fannying around with pseudo intellectual cockshite cuntbollocks

Who? Me, or the OP?

:) I didn't post on the other thread but am a committed & prolific equal-opportunities insulter (thanks for that!), who would call a man a cunt if he deserved it EVEN IN AMERICA

I might get deported.

Stop dicking around with pseudo intellectual cuntshite twatbollocks.

pmsl

custardo

Can you let me in on the joke? Had there been another thread? I am new to this site.

am just pulling your dick

Well it's getting on my tits.

Why don't you tell us what your opinion is on the matter OP.

You have posted a few threads where you don't outline your own position and yet expect others to give theirs. Are you new? Just asking because multiple thread starting in the manner you have done is considered rude on MN.

HTH.

ha ha uniqueuser - now you get it!