Role Reversal

I'd always been amazed by the blind-spots people can have about the words "n*gger" and "f*ggot"; people can't wrap their heads around why certain groups might be sensitive.  But for some reason, I was never able to transfer that understanding over to the words "b*tch" and "c*nt"; that might have been because, growing up, women just didn't seem like an oppressed group to me.

All through school, most of the teachers were women, and they seemed to be pretty bossy, constantly telling us what to do.  Then you have the much-documented hegemony of the sitcom matriarch; on pretty much every show in the 90s, the men were dumb slobs, while the women were smart, responsible, and in control.

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She's gonna choke him out.

Finally, there's the tyranny of the young hot female; up until their mid-20s, any halfway decent chick feels like she's got something on you, sometimes they seem to get off on making guys feel inferior. 

 

Its hard to view her as oppressed.

Now, as an adult, its obvious that that perspective was a little skewed, that women might actually have a valid reason to feel disempowered.  I'm not quite there yet, but if they'd spend a little more time on their knees, I might actually stop calling these bitches cunts.