Opinion
Insults help to reinforce gender labels, stereotypes
By Caroline Johnson | September 9TO THE EDITOR:Jessica Fuller’s column (“Slurs only reinforce gender labels,” Sept. 9) is right on the money. It’s depressing and demeaning to hear serious issues, such as rape, declared in superficial and childish insults. As a close friend of a rape survivor, I am not amused by people who toss such words around lightly.By the female-negative nature of the insults Fuller described, it appears women don’t waste time forming new insults that offend men or glorify our own bodies.
