LSU just hit the OU . <| sep |> Except language doesn ' t work that way . Bitch , cunt , whore , etc . , though gendered , are not used exclusively against women , nor is their use necessarily indicative of anything other than a dislike of the person being insulted . You don ' t generally see this with ethnic slurs at all . You do see it to an extent with homophobic slurs , but this seems more to be a function of the fact that heterosexuality can never be 100 % assumed , and so the terms always could potentially be accurate . I would further venture to theorize that gendered slurs are an inevitable part of living in a gendered society , and that with both sexes numerically equal , such terms will tend to have a generic element to them . You can call a woman a dick , for instance , or say she has balls , without anyone being thrown into confusion by the literal anatomical mismatch .