Whew! Dear God. I just had to stop reading the social media on filthy ol’ Facebook. As comedians would say: Rough room. Seems this election year stars another woman who dares run for Vice President. And men, as well as their like-minded women folk, are spewing the same old filthy sexist and racist slang this ilk used on Facebook for eight long years against President Barack Obama and the 2016 presidential campaign with Hillary Clinton. The one-two punch against Vice President nominee Kamala Harris includes: the w word, the h word, the c word, the s word, the fw combo, and the b word—the latter almost a description of pride nowadays among strong women who don’t give a damn about this profane sexist adjective.
And when I wrote a response against Harris being called the w word, Facebook wouldn’t run it, cautioning my commentary did not meet its community standards. MY commentary? I repeated the same word that was offensive. Why must women be offended every day reading the same old anti-female cuss words on the Facebook feed? What 20-something Facebook Community Standards’ specialist is asleep at the wheel? The feminist sisters call this the double standard, and man is it alive and kicking in 21st century America. Anything to get Trump re-elected it seems. In trying to get a put down to stick against Harris, Trump described her as a “man-woman.” This is the best he’s got? This depiction maybe because she wears pantsuits? Then my mother would be called a man-woman, too, because that’s exactly what she wore throughout the 1970s as an elementary school teacher.
Again, a brown-hued American is questioned about her birthright to run for President and be on the ticket as VP. This time they are going after her mother, born in India. Let me remind everyone that Trump’s white mother was not born in America. Key word is white, or ruddy. Either looks just fine to American racists.
What’s in a word?
Why am I, a staunch supporter of free speech, against filthy anti-women sex slang smeared all over Facebook and no doubt the internet? After all, I was a newspaper reporter and learned the art of colorful cussing, though usually when mad at the computer and never ever in print. But somehow, for some reason, I’ve yet to refer to any female in the common sex slang used by inarticulate men. What is my hang up? Why don’t I just join the Facebook crowd and call women who run for U.S. president the h word and w word and worst of all the c word? Am I a prude? No, that’s not it.
But there is something to language and profanity. Remember when profanity was not only illegal in public (it still is yet not on Facebook), as kids we’d get a slap across the face or our mouths washed out with soap, usually by the hands of our mothers? That’s because language is important. And filthy language used all the time by millions of people on social media, especially during every presidential election year in 21st century America, brings down the human spirit. We are depressed enough without having to endure the raunchiest profanity that only involves women and sex.
The w word, the h word, the s word, the fw combo, the c word—these are rapist words. This is exactly how men with psychological problems against women feel and why they rape and continue to rape and eventually murder until caught, imprisoned or shot by police.
In America, a woman or girl is raped every two minutes. Every single day. More than 700,000 reported rapes a year. Half of the perpetrators are known to the victim; half are unknown. So America, we have a problem, at least to half the population. The problem is our culture that allows men to brag about sexual conquests and get elected U.S. President while any American woman who runs for the same office is verbally and emotionally assaulted by millions of men and women on social media. Like it or not, those very few women who dare to run for President or VP represent all American women, really the entire gender. The attacks are not against one female candidate but all of us. Anti-women sex slang is beyond disconcerting, rude, inappropriate, stupid and by now overdone and just not funny. This sort of language is an assault of the female psyche—which is the real intent of rape.
Yin Yang
Right here I was gonna insert a quote from the Book of Thomas, part of the ancient Gnostic Gospels, and muse on ideals spoken by JC Himself, about how we as spiritual beings must love, appreciate, recognize and honor our dual nature, the feminine and the masculine, and in so doing become whole human beings.
Then I thought, you know, you guys have had decades now to figure out women are not just sex objects, were born with intelligence, are capable of education and careers, can start and run corporations—and all that having been proven, surely women could run the U.S. government if ever elected President or Vice President.
America has a way of moving forward technologically, like with computers and rapid-fire social media posts, but not so fast socially and culturally. Just mentioning the Book of Thomas closes the minds of many Christians here, some who type and send that filth about Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton and President Obama. Look, if you have a problem with the candidate or the elected official, just say what your problem is. It would be refreshing if anyone on Facebook would comment on specific policies and proposals, that have been proven factual, which cause your disdain for a candidate. Enough of the w word and c word and n word all year long until the election … and, oh, if her side wins the presidency?! With men the world over bashing female consciousness to cyber death, the internet would simply explode into nonexistence. Maybe that would be for the best, I mean for humankind.
My concern, Facebook and sexist Americans, is the frequent use of profanity denigrating females will continue to shame our country and our culture but also influence immature readers, particularly young males. I wonder if everything people write on Facebook is spoken in the home, at work, and among family with kids and elderly relatives. Would the language be spoken in church? Why not? Writing online has given many people the impression they can say whatever they want, right or wrong, profound or profane, and they don’t give a damn who sees it. Right. Everybody sees what’s online and will see it in the future, from earth below to heaven above.