Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) responds to Representative Ted Yoho (R-FL), who called her, on the steps of the United States Capitol, a “fucking bitch.”
I think of the many times I heard students leaving a college classroom speak of one instructor or another as a “fucking bitch.” “Don’t use language like that about your instructor,” I would say, whenever I had the chance. I wish now I had taken the chance to say more.
Thursday, July 23, 2020
“I am someone’s daughter too”
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I'd been sorta avoiding this, thank you for putting it where I had to watch it. So honest, so eloquent, so powerful. Every word a nail in the coffins of misogynists.
The words we use, even inside our own heads, affect us more than those we refer to. Best to keep them fair and kind.
I feel hopeful when casual, flippant misogyny gets called out. Some stuff deserves cancellation. :)
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