The Sin Bin • Re: Brexit Anyone ? (part 3)
Cronus wrote:
So the most interesting thing Corbyn has said since last Christmas is to call the PM a 'stupid woman' in Parliament.
And then lie about it to the House. Aren't there serious repercussions for that?
Only if you get caught. The desperate outrage on the Tory benches was comical.
That said, while it wouldn’t be too far along the misogyny spectrum, it would be on it. There’s gender neutral alternative noun available in ‘idiot’, too. But there are linguistic gaps. If I thought recklessness was a characteristic of a woman, the sentence has to restructured because I can’t think of a good noun. ‘Reckless person’ doesn’t really work as an exclamation. Whereas a racist element typically requires an extra word, gender has been baked into our language. I read an article about a gender neutral person the other day and the writer had used ‘they’ instead of ‘he’ or ‘she’, which sort of worked until it followed a sentence about them and their family, and it wasn’t clear if the next sentence referred to the individual or the group.
Statistics: Posted by Mild Rover — Thu Dec 20, 2018 9:01 am