Word: epitheted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only dignified response for Hillary Clinton or any woman similarly maligned is to stand up, straighten her spine and unflinchingly embrace the epithet. In the matter of insult taming, we have some exemplary role models. Gay militants now proudly call themselves "queer." Black rappers appropriated "bad"and even "nigger." If you want to de-fang an insult, you happily claim it as your...
...less abusive word than "bitch," Newt Gingrich might not have been thrown off-message on the biggest day of his political life. Long after the debate is over about whether Connie Chung should have broadcast Kathleen Gingrich's recollection of what her son thought of the First Lady, the epithet of choice against uppity women will hang in the air, a reminder that women have not come such a long way. Like the word penis (before one was cut off), bitch (before the Speaker's mother used it) seldom found its way onto the nightly news. It was too sexual...
There is no equivalent epithet about men. Bastard and son of a bitch have less sting, in part because society expects -- and rewards -- toughness in men. The only comparable insult to hurl at a man is to question his manliness. The charge George Bush resented the most was being called "wimp...
...Detective Mark Fuhrman. Fuhrman found and collected several key items of evidence in the case, including a bloody glove on Simpson's estate. Defense attorneys have accused Fuhrman of bias against Simpson. Today the prosecution sought to bar the defense team from asking whether Fuhrman ever used the racial epithet "nigger." Deputy District Attorney Chris Darden, referring to "the n-word," said the use of the word in the trial would "blind the jury. It'll blind the truth. They won't be able to discern what's true and what's not." This elicited an angry response from defense...
...specific student was targeted," Co-Master Sandra A. Naddaff '75 said. "The name was followed by the epithet, 'nigger...