Reply #67: It's not a question of your style or your politeness [View All]

It's a question of your comprehension.

For the record, you were most polite, but you were nothing if not judgmental.

You don't seem to understand that when applied to a man, the term of which you complain simply is not applicable in any way, shape, form or fashion to women. Neither is it sexist. It just isn't, and no generalized complaint can make it so.

We're talking here about insults. They're meant to hurt, to wound verbally. It's a technique humans have developed over millenia as a means of expression short of physical violence. It is generally accepted that an attack on a male's virility is the most cutting blow. Hence, the existence of the terminology.

An attack on a man's virility is simply not an attack generally on a female's lack thereof. The latter does not follow from the former.

For the record, I reiterate that using the insult of which you complained against a woman is just dumb. It's devoid of freight. If you see it used in such context, I'd suggest you say to yourself not "Gee, what a sexist," but "Gee, what a moron."

Fun little thread you started!