Oh, okay, so she’s the one getting charged with third-degree assault. Makes total sense. You could totally see her intent to harm while she was being forcibly shoved backward and then also while having her face slammed into the pavement.

So a minimum-wage worker could totally buy nukes, then?

So, your philosophy is that you don’t care about consequences as long as rich people get to do what they want?

quit arbitrarily deciding what is ok and what isn’t in order to protect us from ourselves.

It’s so clearly written that we’ve never had any cases make it to the Supreme Court, right?

Nobody can consistently be a strict constructionist, it does not exist. The constitution has be interpreted. Even the authors of the constitution disagreed on meanings and interpretations. People use that designation to defend their views when they have nothing else to fall back on.

That’s sort of a meaningless designation that people use to defend their shitty conservative views.

The growing divide is happening because conservatives are trying to oppress people, and the liberals are unwilling to compromise on civil rights issues. Don’t you think it’s kind of fucked up to blame liberals here?

You, like, totally didn’t read the rest of that post, did you.

I don’t think any one thing is going to “fix sexism,” but I do think that people view sexism too casually, and excusing and ignoring it is counter-productive.

Yeah, I mean, I agree with most of this to a point. I think where we diverge is that I still think it’s indicative of sexism in society because that even under that kind of stress, his mind automatically went to “THOT,” and not some non-gendered insult. I’m not trying to indict the driver—I think he handled the…

And for men, the word Bitch has nothing to do with gender.

Then why can’t people just say, “Yeah, you’re right, ‘THOT’ is sexist, but let’s move on to the other issues because we all agree on that”? Why are people vehemently arguing against Hello_America’s points?

Yes—how can gendered insults be equal when genders aren’t equal?

I have no problem calling her a terrible person, but calling someone a “bitch” disrespects all women in a way that calling someone an “asshole” or “dick” does not parallel. She was absolutely wrong, but he could have called her terrible without using a word designed to minimize women. These ideas are not mutually…

Hard to explain, but what do you think is more insulting: a man being called a “bitch” or a woman being called a “dick”? I would assert that a man being called a “bitch” carries more of a stigma because it is designed to reduce him by emasculation, whereas a woman being called a “dick” is just another way of saying…

It’s solely used to disparage women or men who are acting “womanly” as defined by society’s gender roles. You could argue it’s “on par” with asshole, but we live in a patriarchy where women are delegated to second-class citizens, so in my view it is a false equivalence to compare the two.

I’ve been struggling with my own use of the word “bitch,” which I use sometimes to describe disagreeable women or men who are acting cowardly, or timidly. Culturally, the use of this word is still acceptable, but I’ve been reluctant to use it because I’ve realized I’m only using the word to describe women, or to…

Shocked to come here and discover it wasn’t Terrence Howard.

Not all assholes are racist.