#like she is not your golden retriever girlfriend she is snarky and rude and flawed

[g1deonthefirst]

I feel like one of the biggest signs that there's still misogyny in the Houses is the fact that they still use derogatory language for women. IIRC, Gideon calls Harrow a bitch a few times in GTN & Ianthe a skank in HTN, which are both...very charged terms (To be clear, I'm absolutely not trying to cancel Gideon here; she is 100% also a victim of misogyny & a victim in general. But I do wonder where a very isolated young woman learned those words and who was saying them)

oh yeah absolutely! see also, gideon calling alecto a slut in ntn. i don't really understand why people think that gideon would be using this highly gendered language and exclusively in reference to women unless there was still some level of misogyny in the nine houses. i guess irl people get desensitized to these words as gendered insults, but they really don't make sense as insults unless you live in a world with some level of ingrained misogyny, and gideon exclusively talks like that in reference to women as far as i remember. also, i agree with you anon that gideon is a victim of misogyny, but i suspect based on her using this language and generally being a teenager growing up in a society with some level of systemic sexism, that she (like most of us!) deals with a fair bit of internalized misogyny too.