{"id":4884,"date":"2018-01-11T04:53:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T04:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/01\/11\/word-of-the-day-cack-handed-2\/"},"modified":"2018-01-11T04:53:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T04:53:48","slug":"word-of-the-day-cack-handed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/01\/11\/word-of-the-day-cack-handed-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day: Cack-Handed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">British. 1. Left-handed; 2. clumsy, awkward. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=cackhandedly&amp;oq=cackhandedly&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j0.4935j0j8&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2018\/jan\/09\/catherine-deneuve-men-should-be-free-hit-on-women-harvey-weinstein-scandal?CMP=share_btn_tw\">Example<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">\u201cRape is a crime, but trying to seduce someone, even persistently or cack-handedly, is not \u2013 nor is men being gentlemanly a macho attack,\u201d said the letter published in the newspaper <em>Le Monde<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">I&#39;m with Catherine Deneuve and Christina Hoff Sommers on this one.&#0160; Real women know how to handle obnoxious men: with a stern warning or a slap across the face.&#0160; They don&#39;t go crying to their feminist mommies. And real men accept the rebuke.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">The Left has lost its collective mind (hive mind?) on this as on so many other issues.&#0160; You are one stupid and\/or vile leftist if you cannot or will not distinguish among: a bit of old-fashioned gallantry, a&#0160;risqu\u00e9&#0160; joke, the use of an offensive term such as &#39;broad,&#39; a pat on the derriere, a Frankenian ass grab, a Weinsteinian manipulation, a full-on Clintonian sexual assault, and rape.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">To conflate all of these behaviors under the umbrella &#39;sexually inappriopriate&#39; shows the typical liberal\/left incapacity to draw necessary distinctions as well as an inappropriate use of &#39;inappropriate.&#39;&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">More on Deneuve &amp; Co. at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/09\/movies\/catherine-deneuve-and-others-denounce-the-metoo-movement.html?_r=0\">NYT<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British. 1. Left-handed; 2. clumsy, awkward. See here. Example: \u201cRape is a crime, but trying to seduce someone, even persistently or cack-handedly, is not \u2013 nor is men being gentlemanly a macho attack,\u201d said the letter published in the newspaper Le Monde. I&#39;m with Catherine Deneuve and Christina Hoff Sommers on this one.&#0160; Real women &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/01\/11\/word-of-the-day-cack-handed-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Word of the Day: Cack-Handed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,280],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sex-love-lust","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}