Female Bashing Analysis

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Son of a bitch, motherfucker, pansy, man-whore; what do all these words have in common? Well, aside from them all being extremely demeaning towards men, they all have a common theme. While humiliating the person, mostly male, that you would be directing the insult towards, you are attempting to attack their masculinity. In doing this, you are bringing them down to the level of female, reaffirming that women are considered below men in the first place. I am in the opinion that, you cannot have “male bashing” without “female bashing”. If you removed anything feminine from the equation, most insults, and there are noticeably less, attack a man’s intelligence.

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