Comment on Mona: Australia women's-only museum files appeal to keep men out
protist@mander.xyz 6 months agoShe’s not saying the law is right…
Also Picasso was a renowned chauvinist and misogynist who had affairs with teenagers as a 70 year old…
Comment on Mona: Australia women's-only museum files appeal to keep men out
protist@mander.xyz 6 months agoShe’s not saying the law is right…
Also Picasso was a renowned chauvinist and misogynist who had affairs with teenagers as a 70 year old…
over_clox@lemmy.world 6 months ago
How does everyone know my last name?
Not all Chauvins fit that stereotype. Would be nice if people would stop using my last name as a broad insult. But hell, I can’t expect discriminatory people to leave my family name out of their mouth.
That would be too much like a step in the right direction.
protist@mander.xyz 6 months ago
I see you’ve lost the topic
over_clox@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Nah not really. I’m almost 42 years old and have heard my last name used as a sexist insult my whole life.
People that use that word in an insulting manner are sexist. You just used that word.
You just did a 2+2. Maybe you should try doing a 2-2, and remove that and other sexist terms from your descriptive vocabulary.
It’s not an adjective, it’s a family name.
protist@mander.xyz 6 months ago
I’m gonna need an explanation for how using a word in context with its dictionary definition is “sexist.” Sorry this is unpleasant for you, but I’ve never come across someone with the last name “Chauvin” and been like “oh there goes that chauvinist.” Lots of last names have entered English as descriptors of things, eg sadism from the Marquis de Sade and masochism from Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.
1840, “exaggerated, blind nationalism; patriotism degenerated into a vice,” from French chauvinisme (1839), from the character Nicholas Chauvin, soldier of Napoleon’s Grand Armee, who idolized Napoleon and the Empire long after it was history, in the Cogniards’ popular 1831 vaudeville “La Cocarde Tricolore.” The meaning was extended to “excessive belief in the superiority of one’s race” in late 19c. in communist jargon, and to (male) “sexism” in late 1960s via male chauvinist (q.v.).
Anyway, the point is Picasso was terrible to women. Many women.