[governance] Facebook profiles blocked and content removed in Brazil

[Roland Perry]

In message <7A71AC53-6534-4EFE-9842-853F5D4AA19E at ella.com>, at 09:31:52 
on Thu, 31 May 2012, Avri Doria <avri at ella.com> writes
>> 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.

I think you are missing the point, because the original comments which 
were being protested about, were along the lines of "don't dress like 
whores", not "don't dress like bitches".

It's that very typecasting which the protesters want to highlight.
-- 
Roland Perry

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