troglodyte

The troglodytes that populate X — among whom Vance spends an inordinate amount of his day — may be thrilled.

Permanent political hegemony and the final extinction of the troglodyte right might take a while, but were sure to follow.

Students and administrators alike hate him, and the feeling is mutual; terms Hunham describes his overprivileged charges with range from “genuine troglodytes” to “snarling Visigoths.”

And a good thing too, since in Paul’s own estimation, Barton boys are, with rare exception, a hopeless bunch of “philistines,” “reprobates,” “troglodytes,” “degenerates,” “hormonal vulgarians,” “fetid layabouts” and “snarling Visigoths.”

It doesn’t mean all men are violent troglodytes, or that women don’t use guns, too.