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      1 year ago

      Using sex workers as a misogynist analogy for political affiliation is bad.

      FTR, Putin and Russian Fascism is bad too.

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        1 year ago

        Since when is “bitch” a term for a sex worker. Also you missed the speciesism.

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          I am talking about the sexualisation of the political work, as bad as it is, not the word. Isn’t ‘bitch’ in that context a word heavily charged with sexualisation?

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            Ok let me try to break it down, and it’s necessarily a two-pronged approach:

            First, bitch means a female dog, which is then used for women in the sense of bad-tempered, or semi-affectionate as “my bitch”. The one who gets fucked, less politely in the plural “bitches” among insecure men referring to women rolling their eyes at them.

            Secondly, there’s the meaning of to fuck itself, which can mean sexual intercourse but also things like to mess with, to fuck something up, etc. Very versatile.

            Which then expands the meaning of bitch to also mean people that are subservient to you, that you can, precisely, fuck with, fuck over, and they can’t even tell you to get fucked – if they were in that position they wouldn’t be your bitch.

            Now that’s the point where one could make connections to misogyny and even prison rape but a bitch is not necessarily, and not generally, unwilling to be fucked: The reason conservatives can’t stop themselves from sucking Putin’s dick isn’t that he’s so powerful they can’t refuse, it’s that they love him so much they even overcome their homophobia to do it. Minus the homophobia part just like your mom’s reaction to my dick (SCNR).

            In any case it’s insulting to dogs to compare them with conservatives. They may be loyal to a fault and always looking for someone to look up to but unlike conservatives they do have a heart capable of love.