prog | (no subject)

You know, I'm actually rather uncomfortable with the current popular usage among the Daily Show-watching set of using "[has] balls" and "[is a] pussy" as slang for possessing admirable bravado and contemptible cowardliness or passivity, respectively.

Since the people employing the phrase are the furthest thing from ripsnorting redstaters, I suppose that there's a sense of ironic fun to be had by stepping briefly into George Liquor's shoes for a moment, passing an indictment as one who believes that men primarily validate themselves by going in there and changing the world, and women do it by quietly submitting to authority.

It's a little shocking to hear it coming from you, and so we all laugh. But when I hear you say it over and over again, I do start to wonder.

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I'd noticed this... it does make me a bit uneasy whenever these sorts usages show up.

It's 'cause of stuff like this that some in the feminist blogosphere doesn't feel entirely welcome in the Democratic blogosphere (Daily Kos, et al.) Death of a thousand cuts and all, ya know.