Jeremy Stangroom

And let me take a guess at your "explanation". 1. Structural history of racism vs. vulgarity; 2. Barr's long history of problematic tweets, etc, (indicating not merely an intemperate tweet); 3. Barr is white, Bee is a woman. There's asymmetricality there in terms of target.

If that's the kind of thing you've got in mind, no need to repeat, I'd thought of all that approximately half a second after I started thinking about the issue (as evidenced in my first tweets about it yesterday).

So how are they then even remotely similar?

How is using a misogynistic slur, which has a long history of being used to silence and intimidate women, and which forms part of the linguistic weaponry ubiquitously employed by the alt-right, remotely similar to using a racist slur? Seriously, that's your question?

You can't seem anything *remotely* similar? This is Feminism 101. I could provide a reading list. You do understand how the word "cunt", when deployed in this sense, forms part of the language of sexual violence? I mean this stuff should be obvious.

The fact that Bee is a woman doesn't magically erase the structural and systemic nature of this kind of language. Of course, it would be worse if she were a man, but it's absolutely the standard feminist line that you shouldn't use the word "cunt" in that sort of context.

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...