You keep using that word. I donna think it means what you think it means.

[cyrano]

Carly Fiorina on the 'sexist' portrayal of Sarah Palin on SNL.

...and yes, I would say, um, sexist, in the sense that just because Sarah Palin has different views than Hillary Clinton does not mean that she lacks substance.

Obviously, the game plan here is to label as many things as possible sexist, which will dilute the actual meaning of the word until it can't be used in intelligent discourse any longer.
But then again, I'm just a frothing moonbat who believes that words have meanings and those meanings are actually important when trying to impart information.

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People at work tease me about my fixation on using appropriate words for the situation. They say I use big words. Like 'colloquial'. Or 'virtue'. (Yeah. I shit you not.) And difficult concepts like, 'flexible morality'. I had to sit down and explain what an 'honorific' was in the middle of my explanation of 'marquis'.

(Someone had made a joke about calling a co-worker 'the tent', because one was needed to protect the teenage coworker girls from him. I quipped that if they wanted to be less obvious they could call him 'the marquee' playing on the tent/title ambiguity.)

I love my job, but sometimes these things are a little depressing. My brother (a radiographer) crows to me, "Yeah, see... this is the nice thing about having a job where everyone you work with had to get an OP3 to work there."
(OP3 is a high school end-result ranking from 1, the highest, to 25 on a bell curve.)

...And like many others now, I shall probably have to steal your 'frothing moonbat' line.