The p-word, I get it, and I'm a guy

[steve2470]

I didn't spell out "pussy" in the subject line to be sensitive.

I totally get why that word is offensive to women. Hell, when I was a kid, the WORST thing you could
say to a man was call him a pussy. It implied he was a woman and weak.

Now I'm older and know, of course, that women are strong and that epithet was just sexist and stupid.

I don't understand why people are so determined to embrace that word here. If you're clearly referring to a cat, ok, that's fine. If you're very clearly using it as slang to refer to a vulva, ok. But to use it as an epithet to refer to a male is NOT ok.

If I'm wrong about the vulva reference, I will not use it here in that context either. I'm still learning and growing. The South was a very sexist, racist, homophobic, ableist, etc place when I was growing up.

Steve