Is that not a little bit of a cop-out though? Most people will agree it's a bad reason to start dropping N-bombs over, yet the dark history of women is easily glossed over? The violence and oppression towards women is as old as recorded history, manifested throughout virtually every culture, and still persists to this day in varying degrees in virtually every culture. It's uncomfortable to think about, but being thrust into slavery is still a very real threat for women even today. "Bitch" specifically was used to dehumanise and establish the subservient roles, and yet here we are talking about its fun-factor. I wonder if we had an n-word equivalent exclusively for black women, people would have little qualms using that one too.
Nope, because the N word deserves no part of this topic and I already covered it earlier. There is no "N-word" for women. The N word is what it is and it has been used on the forefront of actual death, violence and systematic control/power/slavery on a global and institutionalised scale/death machine. Constant "comparisons" or "but what about the N word" in this topic are either ignorance or bordering on trolling.
Generic insults no matter what they are do not chart compared to the N word and its history, and most generic insults and swear words now have long histories of being socialized into everyone and anyone using them. Women calling men the words, men calling women the world, people calling their animals the words (my cat is a cunt because it breaks shit). Precisely because even if they are gendered words, they've never had any legit movements in the past of the deaths of thousands if not millions led by carefully targetted language such as that of certain racial insults.
I know forums are also often places of complete social awkwardnesssuch as "ex-employee didn't wave at me in a gas station and now I am so angry what do I do?" or "How do I clean my ass?", but at times the level of lack of critical thinking around reality borders on insanity. Most decent well rounded human beings know you don't call strangers cunts and bitches, nor do you run around naked in public with CUNT written across your forehead. Singing songs and having a bit of a laugh at some rude words is not the same as literally being a sociopath or psychopath. One thing that sends me off to the pits of hell on forums is hyperbole and black/white or what I want to start calling
extremist thinking. You like a song with the word bitch, you hate women and must treat people poorly and you are empathizing with/normalizing serial killers. No. Stop it. Stop being soo dramatic and unreasonable anyone who makes completely ridiculous jumps like this from the get-go.
Remember how to have fun in life, you only have one life. Teach and educate people to respect others and know social boundaries, don't try and turn everyone into the most boring and personality-missing scrooges possible just to say "we done it, we reached peak no fun allowed on planet earth".
This topic honestly reads like "I don't like hip-hop, so I will be dramatic and infer hip-hop causes far more suffering and calamity in the word than it really does and set up a scenario where anyone disagreeing must be a misogynist". Some genres of music might use more coarse language than others, and it may be subjectively "immature", but it's music, it's supposed to be fun. Judge people on their actions and what they do, not always obsessing over humanity having some fun and being crass from time to time. I don't really know of much serious death or calamity because of hip-hop, it's the moral panic that keeps giving blaming rap for everything. If we just
clean up rap music we'll fix society. Yeah, good luck with that.
