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Just kidding! That was what they said when Glenn Beck called Mary Landrieu a “high-class prostitute” for selling her healthcare reform vote in the infamous “Louisiana Purchase” deal.? Instead,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], they quickly endorsed Brown.
When someone from the Jerry Brown campaign thought calling Meg Whitman a “whore” was a nifty campaign tactic, the National Organization for Women didn’t miss a beat.? They promptly denounced the Brown campaign, demanded the campaign advisor be fired, and that Jerry Brown apologize for the smear.? They took a principled stand against the use of such a pejorative term against women politicians:
Alleged feminists are some of the worst offenders, spewing sexist and outright misogynistic garbage at conservative women.
The use of the word “whore” is now highly specialized.? Calling a politician selling a vote a whore is evidently out of bounds for most of us.? And so is calling prostitutes whores, unless you actually are one.? The new, politically correct term is “sex worker.”? The San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival presented a one-day class titled “Whore College” which covered “effective marketing, stress reduction and legal issues” for women making the oh-so-empowering choice to sell sex.? We also can’t use the word whore in context of a woman indulging in frequent, casual sex.? As decades of feminism have taught us, that’s all about the “sexual empowerment” too.? Liberal feminists have wailed for years about Freud’s “madonna/whore” complex where any woman exercising her right to what she fondly supposes is consequence-free sex is classified as bad or unworthy of commitment.
Just as “the N word” is reserved for use by black entertainers, “whore” and similar insults are reserved for use by feminists.? Sometimes as an exercise in hipster irony – blogs by feminists that incorporate the word “whore” in their names abound – and sometimes as an exercise in shunning a woman who dares to have a differing opinion.? As Lori Ziganto notes,
NOW has certainly proved that.