Spokane mayor defends use of profanity in Twitter spat: 'It's time for more women to push back'

Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward says she manages her own social media accounts. That includes her Twitter, on which she recently described someone as a misogynist and called them a vulgar term for “jerk” in response to a particular tweet. The word was partially censored. The insult was part of an exchange Woodward had with a user Tuesday, which was International Women’s Day. The exchange stemmed from a tweet Woodward shared recognizing the city of Limerick, sharing a photo of her in a video chat. Limerick, one of Spokane’s sister cities, is expected to be the first city in Ireland with a directly elected mayor. A user, who identified himself as Terry Parker, commented on the photo with a tweet that said, “look at t.v. girl’s script. For a phone call. The suit cannot be more empty. Or the Mayor’s chair.” “I used the word … in the pejorative term of being despicable,” Woodward said Thursday in an interview with The Spokesman-Review. Parker responded by calling her a partially censored profanity in a tweet that was “liked” by another user, one who claims in their profile to be a therapist. Woodward tweeted a screenshot of that person’s like – and, by…
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