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A comment on XKCD's Randall Munroe on Google+ requiring your gender to be public. Parent comment

Re:XKCD's Randall Munroe on Google+ requiring your gender to... by rlt on Friday July 08, 2011 @04:38AM (#2741694)
Isn't the phrase "don't be a pussy" part of your culture?

I don't buy this reasoning. Phrases like that tend to lose the connotations implied by their origin within a generation or two.

For the longest time as a kid I had no idea "pussy" or "bitch" had anything to do with women. I still don't associate them with women even though I now know the origins.

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Re:XKCD's Randall Munroe on Google+ requiring your gender to... by olalonde on Friday July 08, 2011 @04:41AM (#2741698)
Same here, took me a few seconds to realize what made "don't be a pussy" relevant to the topic.
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