#insult

What’s the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now. You’re probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank. Okay, now, what are the worst things you can call a guy? Fag, girl, bitch, pussy. I’ve even heard the term “mangina.” Notice anything? The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can call a guy is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me that’s not royally fucked up. ↗

— Jessica Valenti

#eye-opening #feminism #gender-inequality #insults #men

I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one." — George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill) "Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one." — Churchill's response ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#play

Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#music #shakespeare #music

Adding "just kidding" doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal. ↗

— Nancy Cartwright

#insult #just #just kidding #kidding #make

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#commit #crime #illusion #immeasurable #insult

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#consumption #daily #daily life #economic #economic system

If a player is racially insulted, he should have the right to leave the field. ↗

— Ruud Gullit

#insulted #leave #player #racially #right

A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#being #book #close #columns #couple

You speak an infinite deal of nothing. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare #nothing

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink." "Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it." Exchange between Lady Astor and Winston Churchill— ↗

— Winston Churchill

#classic-insult #drunk #wife