"I like Samantha Bee a lot, but she is flat wrong to call Ivanka a [taboo word for vagina].
"[Taboo words for vagina] are powerful, beautiful, nurturing and honest."
Minnie Driver:
"That was the wrong word for Samantha Bee to have used. But mostly because ( to paraphrase the French ) Ivanka has neither the warmth nor the depth."
The biggest problem with calling anyone a taboo word for vagina or any other insult is that it's lazy, meaningless, distracting, and dumb. A good insult has substance, not just derogation. "Israeli snipers are killers" may be true but it's easily dismissed, unlike, say, "That Israeli sniper should not have assassinated that unarmed nurse when she was tending to a wounded man on the ground 200 yards away."
Samantha Bee calling Ivanka Trump a "feckless [taboo word for vagina]" may have felt good (and has some cultural relevance), but it's wrong, just on timid civility grounds, but more so on the ground that it distracts from Ivanka Trump's actual complicity in the real crimes of the Trump White House against not just immigrants but almost everyone on the planet. Samantha Bee is reportedly preparing to address this issue further in her next show, June 6. This is not some poly-bigot (blacks, Jews, Arabs) like Roseanne Barr, blaming her bigotry on her medication. Samantha Bee is a serious person who actually wants to know, "Really, who are we?"
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