What epithet or stereotype used against a demographic group of which you're a member most sets your teeth to grinding?
Intersectional slurs or caricatures are also welcome (for lack of a better word). For instance, I frequently find "fat cunt" in my inbox, which is a succinct (if totally ineffective, unless causing me to laugh was the intent) double-jab.
...And to answer the question myself, pretty much any gender-determinative stereotype that treats as self-evident women's inherent inferiority to men drives me right up one wall and down the other.
"Women aren't funny." "Women are weak." "Women aren't rational." "Women are hypersensitive." All it takes is three words to send me from zero to SMASH.
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