Why are there no words to insult men the way there are words to insult women?

Nearly all of the terms you mentioned have to do with sexuality. Men (or rather, patriarchy) has made sexuality "dirty". (Men even insult their own genitalia, calling each other "d*ick", etc). Since women are a big part of male sexuality, they get the most hatred projected onto them.

Men stuck in patriarchy really hate themselves, and this may be what the person above meant by insulting without words: a woman can participate in patriarchy by judging individual men by it's inhuman standards.

Still, all of this is only insulting to *individual* men. Women in patriarchy cannot insult men as a class, just as you point out in your question.

Insult Words For Men

Sorry, but I find being called a pig extremely insulting.

Furthermore, all those words you say (again, you are imposing your own, idiosyncratic value system on me) are insults for women only are actually worse and more commonly insults to MEN. Who seriously calls a woman a p*$$y? No, that epithet is more commonly used to insult a man. Increasingly, so are c*nt and b*tch. Listen to a man calling another man a little b*tch. Is that not a supreme pejorative?

Sorry, but I am proud of my discerning nature in who I associate with, and take very seriously my selection criteria of who I will have romantic/sexual relations with.

QUOTE: But calling a man a pig isn't that insulting, even if he DOES take it seriously.

This is no different than me telling you that catcalls and insinuating sexual remarks are not insulting or objectifying, no matter how you feel about it, which is a perfect example of devaluing the rights and feelings of the victim over the victimizer.

Your staunch, unbelievably insensitive, self-contained opinion smacks of sexism so extreme you cannot even see it.

You see, sexist/racist/classist labels derive their incendiary quality from the recipient of the insult/label, not the person doing the insulting.

That is, just like YOU get to choose how insulted you are by certain things, so do I. The fact that you automatically lump all men in the same class is insulting, short-sighted, and sexist. In your last sentence, you very obviously show that you are not concerned with the feelings of who is being insulted, unless it is a woman. So, just like with a man, your obvious sexism invalidates any opinion you might have among educated adults. Nice try though.

I think women have always been allowed much freedom of expression to give verbal, silent abuse, and hollow kindness with impunity due to much protection from a young age. I am pretty sure if a girl or woman has not acted this way then at least she has witnessed it more than once. Also when a woman is down there are various society supports to help pick them up. This allowed freedom of expression with much protection leaves no stored hostilities

Since Males are not provided such supports and are not allowed that freedom of expression and not provided sufficient supports there is a storing of anger that comes out like cuss words. This is why many men cuss more than women. Calling anyone a name is insulting. It is just more acceptable to society in one group than another. The idea of calling men pigs or other names may be more acceptable in the media than for men to call women bad names. I haven't checked this out, but I imagine the women are allowed more freedom in this area. If a man does it, I imagine the story line will make him look more foolish. I feel more insult to the Male will be allowed without justice, since Males are supposed to be tough and take it.

Language can be critiqued in accordance with its inherent gender bias.

Being female is not seen as positive, hence the words...from any activity to our sexuality, there are negative connotations attached to our gender and sex.

That is why language really does matter...no feminists did not want to ban words like manhole, or chairman...they merely wanted to point out what you are asking...'you throw like a girl' or 'you are a stupid c**t' both denigrating in unique ways with one common theme!

On here people will argue that calling someone a ******** is the same insult as whore, but the impact is not the same at all, and when we sit down and analyse it, being honest, we recognise that fact as men and women.

And by the way its not a pointless discussion..when men study this it is called socio-linguistics, when feminists study it we are accused of being over sensitive to name calling..lol

Because women have better ways of insulting men than calling them names. We don't need a bunch of stupid words.

Look how Miss Theo thoroughly insulted men without using a curse at all. So it really doesn't matter how many words there are, just how words are used.

Well I might insult the lame jeans then, if I know nothing of his "endowment". After all, it could just be a rolled up sock!

Words have an impact on whatever sex you are. Its whatever that person has an insecurity about and the other person is homing in on it in abusive way. So i dont think that being called a certain name because of your sex will hurt anyless if your being ridiculed of something your insecure about.

How many times has a guy said something nice to a woman that she interprets as an insult?