‘White men’ Think Being Called ‘White man’ is ‘Dehumanizing’ Because They Need to Buy a Dose of Humanity

Amy Sterling Casil
5 min readMay 20, 2018

--

I just had a “men’s rights advocate” call me bigoted because I refused to agree that “women rape men as often as men rape women.”

The “most dehumanizing insult of our times” continues to float around Twitter to delight onlookers.

As a writer and English teacher, I’ll break down the complaint of these gentlemen who assert that being described by their color and gender is “dehumanizing” — i.e. it removes their “humanity.”

I’ll stay in my lane on this one. It may be difficult for some to believe that I don’t feel any more or less “human” when someone describes me as a ‘white woman.’ I take it as a statement of fact.

When I first saw this thing on Twitter my response was “I can think of a few terms a little more ‘dehumanizing’ than that.”

Here some terms that are still frequently used to describe females by alt-Right gentlemen:

Feminazi FUPA (fat upper pubic area) Fat Pig Whale Dog Bitch C**t Whore Slut

That’s just off the top of my head.

Then there’s the incels.

--

--

Amy Sterling Casil

Over 500 million views and 5 million published words, top writer in health and social media. Author of 50 books, former exec, Nebula nominee.