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The Gist

Folks, We're Talking About the C-Word

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, Samantha Bee said it first, so let us meditate on the C-word. In defense of Googling your own name: Kirsten Pflomm is a white woman from Connecticut who did an online search 15 years ago and discovered she was the descendant of Iceland's famous first black citizen, Hans Jonathan, who escaped slavery and became a war hero. In the Spiel, the Nobel Peace Prize? All President Trump wants are apologies and thank-you's. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Warning, this show contains explicit content and we say that is sort of a derogor placeholder

0:06.8

I am telling you and very close to this moment right now this show does contain explicit content

0:16.3

It's Thursday May 31st 2018 from slated to the gist I might pesca if only Samantha B had noted

0:24.7

say avancas soulless demeanor her uncool jargon always the blah blah blah without a cool beat

0:33.6

you know her funkless can't she just called her you know out for her funkless can't

0:41.5

or maybe note that avancas so wanton so careless with facts and policies without any of the

0:49.5

responsibility and let's face it of trumps offspring with avana she's the smallest one making her

0:56.3

a reckless runt she could have got with reckless runt would we be in this situation now or she could

1:03.0

have said that avancas was a mouthpiece who has lost all social standing with her peer group

1:09.5

because she just parrots the administration policies she is a friendless front that's all she

1:15.2

is a friendless front and that would have been fine but what did she say she said this do something

1:21.6

about your dad's immigration practices you feckless can't not nice not nice not same as the

1:30.6

rosanne racist tweet but you know harsh just because of the word we have given a lot of power

1:36.9

to that word let me read some of Rebecca Trastor's tweets tweet a pretty interestingly on the subject

1:44.5

but at one point she tweeted you cannot like the word cunt for feminist reasons you can and should

1:50.7

think about why a term for female anatomy is such a potent pejorative but use of it in this context

1:57.5

is not reinforcing or replicating the crude harm it has been used to inflict historically i.e. the

2:04.4

patriarchal diminishment and vilification of women in fact b is using it to critique a woman

2:10.0

precisely because that woman is acting on behalf of that patriarchy one which systemically diminishes

2:17.7

women destroys families hurts kids especially non-white well i want to get back to the first half

2:23.6

the second half of that is not that compelling to me that Samantha B's use of it is less bad because

2:32.3

the object of her criticism deserves it by that logic let's say someone were to tweet at Ben Carson

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