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Report: Trump calls Harris a "bitch"
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Probably yes, and I don't necessarily blame them, everyone has to blow off steam
But the choice of language is worth considering
Maybe I'm more politically correct than I like to give myself credit for, but I curse like a sailor, and I still don't tend to call anyone a bitch, male or female. I'll call them a asshole, moron, idiot, motherfucker, piece of shit, lazy, a fascist loofah-faced shit-gibbon, worthless low-down good-for-nothing greedy bastard, waste of space/oxygen/carbon, dirtbag, sleazeball, whiney, shit-head, coward, dumbass, creep, weirdo, pervert, dumb, two-faced, spineless, and countless other insults, they're all on the table, and I'll wish all kinds of unpleasantness on them up to and including death.
But bitch (and also cunt) is kind of an inherently gendered insult. I don't consider being a woman to be a bad thing, so I don't use those words, even behind closed doors. Same way I don't use slurs against LGBTQ people, different races and ethnicities, people with disabilities, etc. those don't ring true to me as insults so I don't use them as insults.
And I think the fact he does use that kind of insult shows a lot about how he thinks.
True. When it comes to Trump, though, my expectations are already incredibly low. He called members of the KKK “very fine people” while he was serving as President. The bar is on the floor when it comes to this guy.
Kinda maybe.
Bitch & bastard are gendered insults, but does using them make one sexist? It's subjective and dependent on the intent of the user.
We already know that Trump is misogynistic, as well as a litany of other traits and circumstances that make him completely inappropriate to be POTUS.
We should focus on those factual issues rather than engage in supposition about Trumps intent regarding something he may have said in private.