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Skriven 2015-06-18 21:57:19 av Lee Lofaso (2:203/2)
Ärende: Hell Hath No Fury
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Hello Everybody,

Is it fair?  Is it fair to stereotype one group
as having the same as all within that group?

I found this on democraticunderground web site.
The comments made apply to all groups, not just to
women, as the author plainly notes -

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Why Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned is sexist

First of all, I'm going to "magpie" here and incorporate
what some other folks on DU have noted about that idiom-
that it's largely men who act on feelings of being scorned
with violence that actually does real damage, but even so,
most men don't act that way and I don't like generalizations
about demographic groups. I think they're dangerous and
disrespectful.

Someone alerted in another thread on an op that riffed off
that idiom. I also think it's full tilt sexist and not a
matter of being overly picky about language. It's place is
in Congreve's work- not our culture. That idiom belittles
and demeans all women as vindictive and petty and dangerous
in the face of rejection. It portrays women in a very negative
way and it's false in the manner that almost all generalizations
are false: African-Americans like to eat fried chicken and they're
lazy. Jews are money grubbers, Muslims are fanatical terrorists
etc. We wouldn't accept that shit about African-Americans or
Jews or Muslims, and we shouldn't accept it about women either.
Yet a jury found that it wasn't sexist or objectionable- by
7 to 0. That's just plain wrong and says something not so good
about DU.

As another DUer pointed out, the use of the word "hyperfeminists"
in that thread, is in the same vein as calling women "feminazis".
I think he's right. Dead on, in fact.

I don't want to be overly zealous about this, but yeah, I think
there's a problem on DU with a small but significant group of men
who are allowed to get away with this shit. Had AAO not sent me
that IM threatening rape and full of vile shit, he would still
be running around DU polluting it with his barely veiled misogyny.
And he had support in that thread- and from the jury.

It needs to change.

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If there is to be change, what changes would you make?
Comments, anyone?

--Lee

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