[governance] Facebook profiles blocked and content removed in Brazil

[Avri Doria]

On 31 May 2012, at 02:58, Roland Perry wrote:

> The original meaning is closer to "whore" than "bitch" (which is simply a word for a vindictive woman, regardless of her sexual proclivities).


I beleive the various denigrating words for women are culturally variant, so an definitional exercise is sort of futile.  What is invariant is that every language has a bushel full of words used to denigrate women.

avri


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