Phoebe Prince was taunted to death by the S word. Media loves THAT word!
Anti-women, pro-Obama media types are foaming at the mouth these days. They are mad at the Tea Party. They are mad at Massachusetts voters, whom they consider ill –bred and none too smart for rejecting ObamaCaid. And they are very very glad a couple of blacks in Congress SAY a reckless Tea Partier used the n word. But they couldn’t care less that a larger than life comedian called Palin a slut. And Obots couldn’t care less that media promotes the use of the use of the S word. Why just the other night on TV I watched as prime time programming on NBC televised: “weapon’s grade bitch, black bitch, bitch and “that slut?”….all in a two hour period.

Now let’s talk about Phoebe Prince.

From the NYTimes:

The prosecutor brought charges Monday against nine teenagers, saying their taunting and physical threats were beyond the pale and led the freshman, Phoebe Prince, to hang herself from a stairwell in January.
Ms. Prince’s family had recently moved to the United States from a small town in Ireland, and she entered South Hadley last fall. The taunting started when she had a brief relationship with a popular senior boy; some students reportedly called her an “Irish slut,” knocked books out of her hands and sent her threatening text messages, day after day.

From Boston Globe:

Kids can be mean, but the Mean Girls took it to another level, according to students and parents. They followed Phoebe around, calling her a slut. When they wanted to be more specific, they called her an Irish slut.

This story paints the culprits as “mean girls” doing the damage to Ms. Prince.
MOre:

You would think this would give the bullies who hounded Phoebe some pause. Instead, they went on Facebook and mocked her in death.They told State Police detectives they did nothing wrong, had nothing to do with Phoebe killing herself.
And then they went right back to school and started badmouthing Phoebe.

Phoebe Prince was a girl. All girls are told it is OK to call women and girls sluts. When David Letterman used the S word against women, not once did anyone in media demand an apology for calling her a slut or for using the S word. I have yet to see a column in the NYTimes that is frothing mad about the fact that nightly on TV, Hollywood is telling all our children it is OK to use the S word. The more the media called women such as Hillary and Palin sexist names such as whore, bitch and slut, the more happy they were about thier crime!

But slut hurts. Why in God’s name can they not see the damage the word does? There is NO excuse for the promulgation of degrading terms. If your classmates follow you around and taunt you with the S word, it hurts. Feministing LOVEs to use the B word. NOT ONCE did they make a targeted push for Letterman to apologize for calling Palin the S word. NOt once. Instead, they scratched their collective air-heads and said, "so what."

Media tells our children it is OK to use the S word. Meida females who are male-appointed “feminists” taunt our women with S, W, B and C words and then we are surprised that female children do the same to female children they don’t like—with grievous consequences.
Let's think for a second....
Joan Walsh committed crimes against humanity by promulgating misogyny on her web site. FemiSex has said all along “if it is OK to call the woman you don’t like a slut, then it is OK to call every women a slut.”
Are there one set of rules for media and Hollywood and another for teenage girls when it comes to sexist language? The answer is complicated: media and Hollywood dont' want powerful women, they want to be able to call women sexist words to keep women in their place, to degnigrate them at will. When the chickens come home to roost, how pathetic is the media when they cry CROCK tears about Ms. Prince!

You want mean girl? I’ll give you mean girl! I wish that Joan’s daughter were younger, in high school, that she was taunted every day with each and every word that Salon used against Palin. I wish that she would have come home to her high-profile sexist mother Joan and begged her mother to stop telling the world it is OK to commit misogyny. (Salon was especially misogynistic in its treatment of Palin and HRC but to a lesser extent.) I wish her daughter would tell Joan that it is NEVER OK to call women the S word, especially when you are the editor of a national well-read web site. I wish Joan had allowed herself to see this truth. I wish that Joan had made a public apology for the misogyny on her wed site. I wish she had written many posts about the danger of sexist words, especially to young women in our culture.
I wish the “mean girls” who treated Ms. Prince the way Salon treated Palin, would have read the angst-filled columns Walsh had written on behalf of her tormented daughter. I wish media told them they were worth more than Slut, Bitch, White Bitch, Big Fucking Whore, etc.

I wish Ms. Prince were still alive.
I wish someone, ANYONE with a large media audience would tell the mean girls: we were wrong! It is NOT OK to use the S word. It is not OK to use the B, C or W word. Even when it involves white women. Trust me on this: Joan would Never DARE to call a black women a slut, a fuckable blow up doll or put her in a demeaning sexual position with a moose.

I know that Joan is too dull to get her harm, and I know that Letterman and the NYTImes and so many other media outlets are smart enough to know their harm.
But none of that matters. Not until we women DEMAND the END to the S word, just as loudly as media demands the end to the N word.

The next time you hear the S word, I beg you: think of Ms. Prince. Then for pete's sake: THINK AGAIN, before you ever use that word. And if you are brave enough, tell the misogynist STOP!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/us/30bully.html?src=me

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/01/24/the_u...