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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are black standup comics and rap singers allowed to use the word while Paula Deen cannot? The word's not illegal. I cannot believe the Food Network caved. I'm white, from the north, have never used the word myself. But I think this is outrageous, that her contract was not renewed.[/quote]

I'm having trouble understanding how anyone can ask this question with a straight and serious face, but I'll bite. As a female, I think similarly of the words slut/cunt/whore/bitch - they are a bit more acceptable for women to say and use, because those immensely hurtful words have a deep history of being tied to misogyny and patriarchy. A female using it however, can be a kind of way of reclaiming ownership of those historically hurtful words. It's mine to use - not for YOU (some misogynistic man) to use against me, but it's mine to reconfigure a new discourse. It doesn't mean that they're awesome words to use - but the context is completely and totally different.

I don't pretend to say that those words are equal in hurt to the N-word or other slurs and hate speech, but I think the idea is in a similar vein. It doesn't mean those words are awesome to use - but it's up for the demographics of who the words have been historically pointed at, to take the reigns of those same words and take it back.

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