Kay Bailey is a termagant.

[PDittie]

ter·ma·gant
n. A quarrelsome, scolding woman; a shrew.
adj. Shrewish; scolding.

See also harridan.

Great blast-from-the-past post by Maddy McCall here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=815918&mesg_id=815918

[VelmaD]

1. So how come there's no word...

for a quarrelsome, scolding man? *sigh*

Not that KBH isn't an asshole. I just get really frustrated with the sexist bent to our language.

End of rant. You may now return to your regularly scheduled programming. :)

[PDittie]

2. There's plenty of words for Donald Rumsfeld.

"pettifogger" (even though he's not a lawyer), "caviler", and "calumniator", for starters (all from my Merriam-Webster online thesaurus).

No quarrel with (and no excuses for) the male-dominated culture.

[PDittie]

3. Uh... that should read

No quarrel with (and no excuses for) the reality of a male-dominated culture.

[muse]

4. well, we do have misogynist

mi·sog·y·nist Pronunciation Key (m-sj-nst)
n.

One who hates women.


Which I do not hesitate to use frequently in its full meaning for me - a man who uses his position of power over women combined with his hatred of women to put women in their place.

I have super, special sensitive radar for misogynism and I have finely honed fight back skils on this.

[PDittie]

5. there's also "cad"

a man who acts with deliberate disregard for another's feelings or rights

and "cuckold"

a man whose wife is unfaithful

Both rather derogatory references exclusive to my gender. But for sure -- because men defined the words and wrote the dictionaries -- there were many more words defamatory to women than to men.