I don't think he was sticking a mirror. I think that stuff gets accepted as OK to say..there are either groups that it is OK to be mean to or about, "hos", or as mentioned above"trailer park trash" and "rednecks." People look around, if they are inclined to want to insult people to see what it is permissible to say and they say it. Then it spreads and spreads. And what really concerns me is there is research somewhere..recent..that says language like that is the predecessor to physical violence..it opens pathways of permission..well, she is a ??? so I can slap her. He is a ???? so I can beat him up after school.....it has to be pretty universal that polite society will not accept meanness and nastiness to any person or group. Some of it will have to be socially imposed...people spend a lot of ferver getting on people for wearing cosmetics tested on animals for example...they can turn the same ferver on antisocial behavior. At some point, for some words, I think there have to be laws. There was a very nice letter to Oregonian newspaper yesterday about getting back to common decency...we have to...

And everyone who is physically able and does not endanger herself, must speak up to those trying to abuse them. Now, if you are in a dark alley and someone calls you a "ho" just start running...but if you are in a party, a school, a safe place start strongly speaking up. First of all, teach young girls to say (in a safe place) STOP IT. DO NOT TALK TO ME OR IN FRONT OF ME THAT WAY. Some of the idiotic school officials have to be a bit more vigilent than I have seen them in the past...And how in the world does a man ever get "companionship" from women talking like that??? Why are the women rewarding him in fairly significant ways? What is going on????? Do not let women off the hook for being totally passive victims here. They put up with this talk, and some of them talk this way themselves.

Bus drivers...oh my goodness. They have to have the authority and the backup to throw those jerks who are holding everyone hostage off the bus. A few ten mile walks home will cut down on this tremendously. Talking telephone poles...tell the groups of young kids they are not to talk that way on public property...record them (with all sorts of signs saying this will happen) and call their parents in to listen to what is going on. THere is huge denial among parents about what their little darlings are up to...

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