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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Like I said, I'm well educated, I would never use the beat your wife question as part of my debating queue. It's about as offensive as using the term rule of thumb.
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Yup, and I bet you that Nenshi would agree with that, as well as comments by women's groups who have acknowledged that the phrase was used rhetorically but wish that it would be eliminated from common usage.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, however, if anyone actually has some sort of political scorecard upon which they've docked the Mayor points for using the phrase in an innocuous manner, those people are
morons. They are detrimental to the political discourse.
Elected officials and individuals running for office ought to be able to communicate their platform and goals without the discussion being bogged down as to whether a turn of phrase is inherently insensitive. Make a note of it and move on to actual issues. Instead we're at, what, five pages and counting on here? If you felt that the use of that phrase was worthy of discussion, you are a walking argument for the shortcomings of democracy.
Now, if we're using this manufactured outrage and idiotic dalliance on issues that don't matter as a classic example of what's wrong with modern political discourse, that may well be a conversation worth having. But given that as rotten has pointed out we're all sheep drinking Nenshi kool-aid but him, I suspect we'll all come to somber agreement on that point fairly quickly.