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07-28-2010, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by redline View Post
well, now I know not to use that word out of curtousy, but seriously, being such a commonly used word to describe an opression of females here in the states, I never once thought of japan or anything of the sort while using this word. So again sorry if anyone took offense.
Redline, I don't think any of us were offended by "shogunistic".
I, for one, was mildly amused because I thought you have coined a somewhat unique term.

But the word you defined above is "chauvanistic".


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