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Originally Posted by HarryT
Trouble is, Becca, that once you start demanding a right not to be offended you're on a very slippery slope indeed.
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on the whole, I agree that nobody has the right to not be offended. On the other hand, if a sizable portion of a minority says that a specific word, or way of addressing them, is offensive, it seems that it's only polite to not use that term or mode of address. On many of the blogs that I follow, it's considered Not The Done Thing to use gendered smears, of any gender.
Many women are sick and tired of being objectified as a default position. The Red Sonja cover illustration wasn't aimed at women saying "you could be like this in your fantasies" it was appealing to male fantasies. Semi-nude muscular men aren't necessarily there to appeal to female fantasies, they're there to appeal to male readers' power fantasies.
Women have been property, or seen as property, for centuries. Can you blame us if some of us get sick of that, and insist on being seen as *people*?