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Originally Posted by Gilda
Read the quotes again. Of the five, only one doesn't specifically refer to the woman.
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The girl is in the quotes, but she's completely incidental. Even when she isn't there, it's obvious that the guy isn't going to go have sex with his hand. It seems obvious to me that the man is object of almost all of those quotes.
There are instances where it can be used to complain about the woman, but it is not at all automatic. It depends on the context. Lots of language
can be insulting, but usually isn't. It depends on context. It was obvious to me (and other's who knew what it meant) that there was no insult implied here. Jesus Pimp clearly got fed up eventually, and stopped replying maturely. I almost feel like doing that too. Stop going out of your way to find problems with things.
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We must not be reading the same explanations. I see that clearly implied in many of the interpretations:
"The phrase stems from a distinct, oftentimes common, occurance of the man putting his woman before his friends. "
"friend ditched us for girlfriend "
"go and only hang out with their girlfriends for sex."
"women who prevent their boyfriends/husbands from having any social life outside their relationship don't deserve any respect in my book"
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Only the last of these says anything negative about the woman. That is a valid use of the phrase, but as I said above, it is one of many. It is not necessarily insulting to those who understand its meaning. Look, I know what the phrase means, and you admittedly don't. Just trust me.
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"it took a lot of balls to do that" is a compliment. Calling a woman a whore is an insult. That's the kind of analysis I'm applying in this thread.
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You missed my point. It was that the meaning of the overall phrase was completely different than the meanings of the individual words. This isn't exactly the only place that this happens in the english language.