And to cover all US bases:
Posted on 03/17/2018 2:05:43 PM PDT by euram
State Rep. Michelle DuBois (D-Plymouth) disagrees. She has been calling for the removal of a statehouse sign that reads "General Hooker Entrance" (so inscribed because it stands opposite a statue of General Hooker), which she described as an affront to "women's dignity."
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They always have their mind in the gutter looking for something to be offended by.
It must be a miserable existence.
And to cover all US bases:
Maybe it’s her former profession she’s upset about?
She a chip off the old rock.
The term predates the General by about 50 years.
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She has been calling for the removal of a statehouse sign that reads “General Hooker Entrance”
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She wants the sign to read “Special Hooker Entrance”. They’re all special.
Not true.
The New York Times’s Maureen Dowd recently got this wrong. (It was the Times, so there was no correction.) The Washington Post got this wrong before—as late as a year ago. IS SOMEONE HIDING DICTIONARIES? See also www.washingtonpost.com and send e-mail letters to letters at washpost.com.
From the WASHINGTON POST, 2 September 2000, “Free For All,” pg. A23, col. 1:
_Hookers in History_
Robert Kaiser’s otherwise entertaining story about Washington in the age of Lincoln (”Mr. Lincoln’s Town: Muddy and Southern,” front page, Aug. 28) repeats the canard that the term “hooker” finds its origin in the houses of ill repute often visited by troops under the command of Union Gen. Joseph Hooker. As the etymologists at the American Heritage Dictionary explain, however, “there is one thing of which he is often accused that ‘Fighting Joe’ Hooker certainly did not do: He did not give his name to prostitutes.”
In fact, use of the term “hooker” as slang for prostitute predated the Civil War. It appears in the 1859 edition of John Russell Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms, where hooker is described as “strumpet, a sailor’s trull.” Earlier uses of the term, dating to the first half of the 19th century, also can be found. Bartlett believed that the word could be traced to Corlear’s Hook, a New York City neighborhood that was frequented by sailors.
To be sure, Hooker’s troops were notoriously dissolute, at least during their time in Washington. And Hooker himself was described by U.S. Grant as “a dangerous man” who was “not subordinate to his superiors.” But whatever Hooker’s faults—and notwithstanding the happy coincidence between his name and his reputed fondness for ladies of the evening—Gen. Hooker cannot be tagged with lending his name to their profession.
—Charles Rothfeld
All Hooker headers will have to be scrapped I guess.
TJ Hooker?
I’d rather not.
So change the sign to “General Strumpet”
It is offensive to those women whose character defines them as hookers.
In contrast, however, I doubt it is offensive to women whose character is good.
Of course she’s right — and of course she has every right to be offended — because that sign is there precisely to make the joke that so offends her.
Feminism marks not just the end of reason but the end of humor.
She needs to be in a straitjacket.
There's always the rear to women's dignity, very pleasant as well.
She’s a triggered liberal!! Look out everyone!!
someone might want to remind State Rep. Michelle DuBois (D-Plymouth, that everyone has two things opinions and a-holes.
She is exhibiting one and not the other.
Also since the liberals revere the 1st amendment she can go pound sand
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