Very well said. Feminine terms are bastardized as insults to our faces, yet also used as adjectives of admiration toward objects such as cars or the sea or “Mother” Earth – objects. It’s a kind of cognitive dissonance that is the fabric of non-cisgendered non-male existence.

I wrote in the same vein after the Franken revelations in my essay, “Policing Gender and Sexuality Insults” in 2017, writing, “Slut” is a pejorative flung at any women who have the audacity to be sexually open. ‘Promiscuous’ is the polite term, but it amounts to the same thing. ‘Frigid’ or ‘prude’ are flung at women who choose to say ‘no’ to a proposition. Women’s sexuality choices are always open for discussion, subject to judgement and condemnation, to shaming. ‘Damned if we do… damned if we don’t…’” and continuing, “…sexist pejoratives burn. That’s why we must eliminate them from our lexicon. We must refuse the power of those labels that mark us for our gender [or sexuality]… labels that steal our sense of self and sexuality… labels created by [cis-gendered] men to demean us… These labels have become so ingrained in Western culture that we women even find ourselves flinging them at our own”