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1. Female when used to refer to a human woman.
2. Crazy when used to refer to your ex-girlfriend(s). They cannot all be crazy. Maybe it’s just you.
3. Bitch, in nearly every context, but particularly if you are referring to your romantic partner, a woman you don’t like, a woman who has spurned you, or really, any woman at all. Also, when gratuitously used in music ie: “Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe,” or “That’s how you let the beat build bitch,” or “I see two of my bitches in the club.”
4. Censorship, the cry of, when you have said something offensive and then resent that your offense hasn’t been warmly embraced.
5. Fat/Ugly as a rejoinder to a woman having an opinion with which you disagree.
6. Actually, if you intend to “correct” or “explain” something you have deemed yourself an expert on.
7. Joke, just a, when you use humor as a guise for pettiness, inadequacy, and hatred.
**Feel free to add other words we should ban in the comments!
Roxane Gay is the editor of The Butter.
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hugpunch 130p · 535 weeks ago
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kellyography · 535 weeks ago
threatqualitypress 136p · 535 weeks ago
sednarea51 128p · 535 weeks ago
The Library Mole · 535 weeks ago
--> "The <any letter here>-word"
--> "Person of interest" instead of "suspect"
JMo · 535 weeks ago
sednarea51 128p · 535 weeks ago
GigiAuLait 102p · 535 weeks ago
Pantomime_Horse 112p · 535 weeks ago
jhsaxena 136p · 535 weeks ago
Goomaly 113p · 535 weeks ago
Also, "male" instead of man just feels right sometimes.
Hannah · 535 weeks ago
Emily · 535 weeks ago
paddlepickle 119p · 535 weeks ago
tekkah 115p · 535 weeks ago
nothingsmonstrd · 535 weeks ago
annaisabe 120p · 535 weeks ago
"Objective" when it comes to columns and other forms of journalism and opinion-making that dare suggest something ain't right.
"I'm just being honest" when you're just being an asshole.
"I'm going to play the devil's advocate" when you're just going to be contrary for no reason than to be an asshole. Also, an annoying corruption of the original Church function.
MovableBookLady · 535 weeks ago
Emily · 535 weeks ago
turanga_leela 121p · 535 weeks ago
"How is my sweet bitch?"
beyonce pad thai · 535 weeks ago
Just because you don't like being called out on something doesn't mean you get to dismiss it as tumblr-activism, sjw, whatever! I'm not even on tumblr!
Audrey · 535 weeks ago
Minivet · 535 weeks ago
dwoolf16 0p · 535 weeks ago
embryoconcepts 104p · 535 weeks ago
lindsayan · 535 weeks ago
cobrunstrom 83p · 534 weeks ago
Unreadaethel 127p · 534 weeks ago
ct330 108p · 534 weeks ago
Wen day · 534 weeks ago
neptunesnachos 135p · 534 weeks ago
brigidkeely 112p · 534 weeks ago
"I'm sorry, but...."
"Well actually..."
laylapalooza 93p · 534 weeks ago
NOT A REAL APOLOGY.
Shane · 534 weeks ago
si_rosenbaum 120p · 534 weeks ago
Art · 534 weeks ago
ct330 108p · 534 weeks ago
syedarhaider 103p · 534 weeks ago
thedaela 124p · 534 weeks ago
No.
threatqualitypress 136p · 534 weeks ago
Bullshit you actually are regularly checking on this issue, bro. Bullshit you've ever even checked ONCE. You are just trying to assert the authority of the popular status quo.
starroberts 0p · 534 weeks ago
I've been guilty of referring to myself as such and afterwards, I'm immediately overcome with a desire to impale myself on a sharp spear of self loathing.
Help me out here people, what's a good term for a woman that doesn't have a paycheck attached to her 24/7 job?
noodge4lyfe 109p · 534 weeks ago
ct330 108p · 534 weeks ago
StillT 103p · 534 weeks ago
That is, until a band of internet troll/bigot smashing do-gooders officially christens themselves the Social Justice Warriors and they have snazzy costumes and snappy catchphrases and a jammin' theme song. Then it's all good.
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