Re: [Contact Project PM] douchebag linguistics
Subject: Re: [Contact Project PM] douchebag linguistics
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 5/19/11, 02:39
To: maryeng1@yahoo.com

I've gotten all of your messages on this and understand you feel strongly about the issue, but you have to understand that "douchebag," in English vernacular, has a particular meaning that's essentially divorced from any literal connection to physiology, just like "asshole," "dickhead," "cock," etc. Yours is the first complaint I've gotten on this and I work with a great number of women who themselves use the term. You have to remember that women differ quite a bit in what they consider to be offensive. If you're offended, I apologize, but I use language with a particular descriptive intent and, like you, also have firm opinions on what is and isn't acceptable.

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:32 AM, <maryeng1@yahoo.com> wrote:
maryeng1@yahoo.com sent a message using the contact form at http://www.projectpm.org/contact.

http://braingarbagedystopie.blogspot.com/2011/05/misogynist-anonymous-fbi-anops-op.html

hey.  the anonymous women out there can use less genital adjectives and epithets.
just
fyi



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Regards,

Barrett Brown
512-560-2302