If men can use those other “gutter” words — ass, fuck, damn, etc — then so can women. It’s rather anti-feminist to say that women can’t use “male-invented gutter language.” If men invented gutter language, it’s arguable that men invented ALL language; I’m not a linguist, but from what I know about the evolution of language, I tend to believe women have just as much invested as men.

I do NOT think words unrelated to women (fuck, damn, hell, shit, etc) are a feminist issue. Believe what you want about what it says about someone’s “class,” but don’t claim moral superiority. In the end, they are just words expressing stronger than “goshdern” could possibly.

My first response when I read this article? “WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK??!!!!” But hey, I don’t have an English degree, so I guess that’s all one can expect. ;)

I will continue reading, as will plenty of others.

What I love most is that Cordes somehow expects us to believe that sie is a feminist. Really, a government official says that date rape is a “disagreement,” and the best sie can say is “I can’t believe you swore?” Um . . . yeah. That’s the kind of feminist reader I want.

And for the record, I reread the post and I didn’t swear here. I have no idea why, but I didn’t. Maybe Cordes is offended by the word “asses?” Or maybe Cordes meant to leave a note on the last post, in which I did indeed swear gratuitously, but got so excited about putting me in my place and telling me how “ignorant” I am that sie ended up commenting no the wrong post. (which is something many intelligent people have done, but god, when you’re arguing your superiority really isn’t the best time, is it?).

All I know is that when government officials are calling rape misunderstandings and quarrels and when legislators are trying to take away womens’ bodily autonomy, if the thing that offends you most is the word fuck (*gasp!!) . . . well someone is indeed ignorant and sad here, but it sure as hell isn’t me.

If this blog is representative of modern feminism I would have to say the revolution, for which so many of us worked so hard, did not achieve its goals, one of which was to liberate young women from attachment to male-invented gutter language which often refers in derogatory fashion, to sexual intercourse, or to female body parts.

I won’t be reading the blog again, but for young women who might, do them a favour and ban vulgar language that insults anyone who reads it.

“…there is a difference between a man using unreasonable force to assault a woman on the street…”

It really does beg the question: In this man’s mind, is there a REASONABLE amount of force that can be employed when assaulting a woman on the street?

Sadly…I’ve seen people on less-intelligent-minded blogs basically agreeing with the sentiment and toting off BS (aka blantant misinformation) about women “lying” about rape happening…

* Rachel reaches for her copy of The S.C.U.M. Manifesto *

sorry!

What’s with these men?!