I completely disagree that there is a double standard involved. Countless people have explained the fundamental difference, I hope I don’t have to repeat it.
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The fact that she’s a woman matters profoundly. I guarantee that everyone would be shocked if, say, John Oliver said the same thing. Just like there are different norms re: what white vs. black people can say to black people.
No, it doesn't matter *profoundly*. If black people employ the N-word as a denigrating epithet, as the worse thing they can think to say to another black person, then they will absolutely be condemned for it. Bee wasn't reclaiming the word, she was using it in exactly the...
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same way that the denizens of the misogynistic alt-right use it. As the worst thing she could say to another woman. Your point is daft. Plenty of black people find the reclaimed use of the N-word problematic, let alone used in an equivalent to
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the way Bee used "cunt". You don't escape the structural and systemic aspects of misogynistic language just because you're a woman. This is what the notion of "splash damage" is all about. You harm other women if you employ that sort of language.
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