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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 10:15 AM Original message |
Poll question: Is The Use Of The Word "Cackle" Sexist? |
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Colobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 10:16 AM Response to Original message |
1. Not if your laughter is truly unpleasant to hear. |
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Tom Rinaldo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 10:24 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Yes if you would never call a truly unpleasant Male laugh a cackle |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 10:31 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. I'd call a truly unpleasant male laugh a cackle if it was a cackle. |
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Colobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 11:36 AM Response to Reply #4 |
20. Well, the word "cackle" is new for me- English is my second language. |
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burythehatchet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 10:18 AM Response to Original message |
2. Verb number 3 seems pretty accurate |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 10:20 AM Response to Original message |
3. Maybe sexist toward hens... |
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donsu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 10:31 AM Response to Original message |
5. yes, the neo cons used 'cackle' against Hillary because |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 10:40 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Mad scientists cackle. The host in this Nathaniel Hawthorne quote... |
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Tom Rinaldo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 10:58 AM Response to Reply #7 |
12. There you go. "Cackle", when it is associated with a male... |
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incapsulated (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 11:40 AM Response to Reply #12 |
21. What Tom said. n/t |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 05:51 PM Response to Reply #12 |
24. It's "rarely if ever used to decribe the laugh of any normal, sane" anybody. |
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DrFunkenstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
8. Old Men Cackle |
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Kurt_and_Hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 10:52 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Aha! Old men... not virile men. |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 10:53 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. I doubt the sound Grampa Fred makes could be accurately described as a "cackle." |
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Kurt_and_Hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 11:28 AM Response to Reply #10 |
18. And why would no one call Thompson's laugh a cackle? |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 05:59 PM Response to Reply #18 |
26. What he said. |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 06:06 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. I'm Confused |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 11:07 AM Response to Reply #8 |
13. I Guess Old Men Crackle Because They Ran Out Of Juice Or Tetosterone |
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LibDemAlways (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 10:56 AM Response to Original message |
11. When I think "cackle," I think |
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jenmito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 11:13 AM Response to Original message |
14. No. And it doesn't matter anyway since Hillary's "natural laugh" immediately stopped |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 11:20 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Just Shows How Smart She Is |
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jenmito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 11:35 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Yup, smart and very calculating. Disingenuous, too, to be "testing out" a laugh |
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emilyg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 12:54 PM Response to Reply #14 |
22. Smart woman. |
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jenmito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 01:00 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Disingenuous, calculating woman. |
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TwilightZone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 11:17 AM Response to Original message |
15. I think intent is the key. |
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CRH (671 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
17. Anybody remember Walter Brennon? ... |
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ChiciB1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 05:54 PM Response to Original message |
25. If The Shoe Fits... I Guess Not! n/t |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 06:16 PM Response to Reply #25 |
28. I'm Always Trying To Learn... |
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jenmito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 06:24 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. So it's ok for Hillary to use her gender against "all the men giving her attention"? |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 06:32 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. I Agree With You And The Other Poster |
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jenmito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 07:01 PM Response to Reply #30 |
34. What do you mean that you recommend a person try it in real life? |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 07:07 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. And Some Folks |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 07:09 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. And |
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jenmito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 07:20 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. A cackle is something someone DOES-not something someone IS. |
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Honeycombe8 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-21-07 01:30 PM Response to Reply #30 |
39. True...that's a good test. If "cackle" is acceptable, try using it in the office... |
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Honeycombe8 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 06:32 PM Response to Original message |
31. Probably, because it's almost always used to describe something unpleasant about women... |
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Honeycombe8 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 06:35 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. The song from The Music Man, by group of older women..with chickens cackling... |
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Gormy Cuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 07:39 PM Response to Reply #31 |
38. Cackle is the new favorite way to describe Clinton's laugh. |
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bigwillq (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 06:40 PM Response to Original message |
33. I don't think it is (nt) |
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question everything (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-21-07 01:32 PM Response to Original message |
40. Your defintion refers mostly to hen |
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