I had no idea that personal pronouns carried quite so many unpleasant connotations. From now on, I shall only use full names - up to and including referring to myself Happy Phantom only in the third person.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Tue 27 Nov 2012, 17:39, 1 reply)

I, er, EMV also didn't realise that "she" was such a terrible insult
And EMV has an academic qualification in feminism :/
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 27 Nov 2012, 17:52, closed)

"academic qualification in feminism"
monster munch is wondering what EMV is on about.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 27 Nov 2012, 20:12, closed)

EMV has an honours degree in politics
One-quarter of which concerned gender politics and feminism.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 28 Nov 2012, 7:59, closed)

monster munch was hoping it was a euphemism for
gender reassignment surgery.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 28 Nov 2012, 8:24, closed)

Oh yeah.

(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Wed 28 Nov 2012, 8:25, closed)

EMV does look good in a skirt, if that helps

( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 28 Nov 2012, 8:48, closed)

Hmm.
monster munch has stunning calves, so he should totally get togethet with EMV to make a calendar, or something.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 28 Nov 2012, 19:39, closed)

Obviously you weren't brought up properly...
or you would know that 'she' is the cat's mother. If you are talking about someone, it is polite to use their name. Simple, basic manners.
( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Wed 28 Nov 2012, 0:15, closed)

I'm always saying that the biggest problem with this place is the lack of simple, basic manners
especially when they are based on archaic, gender-specific nonsense that no-one's said since the 1950s.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 28 Nov 2012, 8:45, closed)

You mean expecting someone to refer to me by my name rather than my gender
is archaic?
( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Wed 28 Nov 2012, 17:48, closed)

Well, yes, it was generally considered polite to refer to a woman by name, rather than as "she", if said woman happened to be physically present. Perhaps it still is. Whether or not Wicca'd Witch (presumably a nom de plume, in any case) can be regarded as 'physically present' on a messageboard may be open to some debate.

Nevertheless, to extrapolate from the casual (and possibly mildly impolite) usage of "she" that a man is a "misogynistic prick with mummy issues" who has deliberately and maliciously "reduced [Wicca'd Witch] to a gender" is perhaps overstating the case a little bit. In fact, Happy Phantom would go so far as to assert that it's the kind of grandiose tubthumping uberfeminism that would have had Andrea Dworkin donning a false beard and a strap-on out of contact embarrassment.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Wed 28 Nov 2012, 19:34, closed)

I tend to find that most men who feel the need to reduce a woman to an adjective and a gender tend to have some issues.
Maybe he isn't a misogynist. Maybe he doesn't have mummy issues...but he's definitely a prick.

(And no, Andrea Dworkin would probably have come down firmly on my side for that, I'm afraid - especially given EMV's previous comments. If you think otherwise, then you know very very little about Andrea Dworkin)
( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Wed 28 Nov 2012, 22:30, closed)

Aw, don't spoil it by being reasonable
Having just spent three years working at an almost-entirely female-staffed medical charity, providing better maternity clinics in the developing world and campaigning against FGM, I was quite enjoying your homespun third-person pronoun feminist rant. By all means, call me a misogynist if it makes you feel better to imagine that I have "issues when it comes to people who own a vagina" based on my sentence construction.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 29 Nov 2012, 8:13, closed)