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Maria, if you take another look at that portmanteau word you coined, and split its two parts apart just ever so slightly differently, it has a very sexual meaning. We already get enough spam from porn sites here, that’s why I redacted it. Nothing at all to do with its offensiveness rating, which was moderate at worst.

I still wasn’t talking about the USA though, nor suggesting that Americans oppress ‘the religious’. So her suggestion that I might want to examine that assumption is still off base, in that I don’t actually assume that.

A better comment than my last ‘p.s.’ would have been the one I considered but rejected in favour of brevity:

“—- [and while you're there, MariaMoria, you might want to examine your assumption that religious folk are an oppressed, marginalised group in the Yoo Ess of Ay.]—-”

This seems to imply that religious folk aren’t an oppressed marginalised group in the USA, which is only really true if you mean ‘Christian’ when you say ‘religious’, or at a stretch, Jewish. As I understand people of other religions are often oppressed and marginalised in America.

p.s. Sorry about coining and using that word you redacted, I didn’t even think about whether you’d want that word on your website, what with me making it up and all. I won’t use it again.
It makes me a little sad though that my made up word that has no meaning at all, but sounds unambiguously rude to women (or at least the group of women it’s meant to refer to) is considered worthy of removal, but godbag wasn’t, even though it’s a real word which is an insult for a certain group of religious people and sounds only slightly ambiguously rude to most religious people, and I used it several times.
I guess not everyone can be as wonderfully inoffensive and so willing to avoid using words that upset other people (whether or not that offense seems ‘reasonable’ to me) as I am. I’ll just be in the corner here, blowing on this old trumpet of mine.

p.s. you might want to examine your assumption that I’m talking about the ol’ Yoo Ess of Ay. I have nothing against Americans but everything is not about you all the time.

BZZZT. Thank you for playing, please pick up your consolation LOLCat as you leave the podium.

Hoyden About Town is not a USAn blog. Shakesville is a USAn blog. Both blogs talk quite clearly about their history on their About pages.

Believe me, we know it’s not about us all the time.

It’s ok I know they aren’t. I don’t think that any website that uses derogatory terms for any group, oppressed or not, is a safe space for members of that group, or other groups that feel that sort of speech is hateful.

p.s. you might want to examine your assumption that I’m talking about the ol’ Yoo Ess of Ay. I have nothing against Americans but everything is not about you all the time.