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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson
"Whore" is toxic and we should all stop using it. There are better and more precise ways to express ourselves.
You guys still don't get it, or why I was so angry.
"Whore" is sexist language, and while there was some extremely meager pushback to it before I came in myself, there were many more '+1' and 'this guy gets it's. The mods saw the sexist language. Nobody was penalized for it.
Somebody explain to me why racist, homophobic, islamophobic, antisemitic, transphobic, and hate language are all banned, but
overt sexist language like calling a woman a "spoiled whore" and wishing her misery for it is totally fine re forum rules.
You all invited me to post here. So yes, I yell at all of you when I see language like that being used after you all espoused such "woke" agendas. You've apparently forgotten about your women posters.
Maybe it wasn't jarring for you all to read someone post a really vile sexist post calling the first lady a gold digging whore, but it was super jarring for me. Its an unnecessary and painful throwback to all the times sexist language has been used against myself, my friends, all women. I doubt many of you have been called sluts, or whores, or golddiggers in the way women have. It hurts.
This argument, for me, has nothing really to do with Melania Trump. I don't have anything poitive to say about her. This argument is about YOU all and how you're using this sexist language, and how angry it makes me that you see some sort of difference between it and other harmful language in that the f-word and the n-word etc are censored and would be punished, but calling women whores isn't.
AND if I flip out over that language, that hurts me, I'll be banned but not the person who used it.
Don't just all agree to not use the word here.
Ban sexist language from this forum. Add "whore" to the censored list, and treat women with the same respect and sensitivity and protection that you're currently giving every other group here.
If I need to eat another ban for offending your collective male fragility, thats fine.