Dear Spartan Edge,

The Spartan Edge claims to be the "edgy and progressive" media outlet at Michigan State. I find it totally ironic that such an "edgy" news source would stoop so far below that self-described status to call themselves, "the end of pussy journalism."

Any progressive, or edgy person who didn't happen to miss the great social movements of the past 100 or so years would probably tell you that "pussy" is an offensive word for a woman's vagina. I do not appreciate an online magazine describing how cool it is by using a gender specific, negative term to describe itself. Apparently, it's pretty absurd to feel this way, because the moderator called me an "ardent feminist" for pointing this out. Don't get me wrong, I'm all about free speech and non-sensorship, but pussy is an offensive word to describe something that is bad.

The word pussy not only objectifies the most uniquely feminine organ, but it implies that the vagina is something substandard- to the penis obviously-or anything "masculine" for that matter.

In this nation masculinity is associated with boldness, fearlessness and strength. I happen to know plenty of females who are bold, fearless and strong- and guess what? They all manage to maintain some level of feminity. Such attributes are not masuculine traits at all. It is ignorant and sexist to assume that women are weak, timid, and sumbmissive *ahem* pussies. I doubt Spartan Edge would ever call them selves "the end of dick/tool/prick/cock journalism".

There has already been a movement to disuade the use of the word "gay" to describe something as stupid or dumb- so why is pussy OK? There are Facebook groups with hundreds of members called " People Agaisnt Using the Term 'Gay' as Hate", or something like that. It is wrong to use sexuality, racially, or gender based insults, especially by media outlets that want any sort of acknowledgement of legitimacy.

To the moderator and writers at Spartan Edge, if you are all such spectaculor journalists, I'm sure you could dig a much more creative, and much less offensive word out of the thesaurus to describe yourselves.

Until then you are all a bunch of misongynist, milquetoast journalists.