Kind of exhaustedly disappointed to hear Anita Sarkeesian using the SWERF dog whistle "prostituted women" in her latest video.
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Replying to @chaosprime
@chaosprime off topic, but what does "dog whistle" mean anyway?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @wirehead2501
@wirehead2501 term that sounds like normal words but has special meaning to a particular group, so you can steganograph public discourse2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @chaosprime
@wirehead2501 by analogy with how most of the sound output of dog whistles is in a frequency range dogs can hear but humans can't1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@wirehead2501 "prostituted women" is part dog whistle, part shibboleth, really
10:23 AM - 19 Jun 2014
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