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[cherry28]

Just me and my coworker in the office today, and I'm having a really hard time motivating myself. We've started doing "employee jumping jacks" to keep ourselves warm. Winter's going to be a bitch my friends. My fingers are a permanent shade of lavender...not so attractive

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[anonymous]

As a feminist, do you find the word 'pussy' offensive? I mean as it commonly used. As when one man says to his friend, "Don't be a pussy!"

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[cherry28]

Somewhat, yes. If I hear it and there's an appropriate time to bring up how derrogatory the term is, I will. I usually don't let it slide, mostly because I think that education is the only thing that is going to change something as pervasive language. However, I use my discretion and try to pull the person aside rather than address the situation in front of a group. I don't usually have a fit over it. However, that also depends on the situation!

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[cherry28]

as pervasive as--poor grammar and not spell checking things. Oops!

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[anonymous]

Thank you for your sincere answer. I can definitely see how a woman might find ‘pussy’ offensive. I suppose, some may feel, such a term stereotypes woman as being worth mentioning only because of their vaginas. But then I thought about how the word ‘dick’ is sometimes used. As in “What a dick that guy is.” That doesn’t seem overly offensive to me, so I thought neither should the word ‘pussy.’ I suppose a distinction could be made in that ‘pussy’ is used as slang for being gentle or soft or wimpy while ‘dick’ is used to refer to someone who is repugnant. Still, I’m not sure where that distinction gets you. I guess I wish that ‘pussy’ was at least as unoffensive as ‘dick’. Is that wrong?

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[anonymous]

That guy needs his own blog.