Let me just throw something out there:
I'm guessing you are male. You obviously see the issues some women have to live with, and you don't like it; fair enough. You think the people who do it are bad people.
But then interestingly, you refer to them as 'cunts', a slang term for female genitals considered one of the nastiest insults that can be given.
Which sort of takes you full circle.
Discuss.
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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Sat 1 Nov 2014, 18:09,
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Well, in fairness, that has more to do with the phallocentric nature of English discourse, but it's a valid point.
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you got me
Hate to admit it.
But you did.
Where I take the moral high ground is I'm not going to threlike threaten you for pointing that out like the people I'm complaining about.
What politically correct expletive would you suggest?
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I wasn't trying to be clever (god forbid)
or score any points. I just thought it was interesting.
Edit: I'm no prude about the word personally, I'd be on the wrong website if I was. But I'd have used something more dictionary, like 'idiot' in this context.
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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Sat 1 Nov 2014, 22:29,
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Related to that
I had the pleasure of seeing Kate Tempest do a book event earlier this week1. As you can imagine, a female poet tends to draw a fairly feminist crowd, especially when she's speaking in the Brighton area2.
The intake of breath when she spat out that word in the middle of one of her poems3 was audible, followed by a round of laughter. I guess if it's a woman using it, it's OK to use.
1 Yes, I voluntarily attended a poetry recital. This looks bad.
2 This looks worse.
3 The poem in question is called Some Couple, and the fact that I bothered to remember that should encourage you to check it out.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Sat 1 Nov 2014, 21:50,
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The intent re calling someone a cunt isn't the same everywhere
In most of the US, it's a gendered insult (directed at women) and deservedly taboo, but it isn't here and is often used in a positive/affectionate "he's a good cunt" sense too
One of my friends is an activist re getting more women in to STEM subjects / professions, and she calls people cunts all of the time
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custard, Sat 1 Nov 2014, 22:07,
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ffs
this is starting to sound like teenage boys discussing amongst themselves, while playing call of duty, about why its so unfair they can't say the n-word
we're all cunts
we're all niggers
lets get on with things
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I agree
that over here it is watered down, much like calling someone a lucky bastard. You aren't really questioning their parentage, and it wouldn't really make sense to do so in the context that it often used. But cunt is still taboo.
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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Sat 1 Nov 2014, 22:46,
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I went to a Dixie chicks show in San Francisco
Militant lesbians everywhere
I got unprovoked punching and kicking
There really is no relevance to this tale save the Dixie chicks were ok live
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colmcq2, Sun 2 Nov 2014, 10:40,
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Were you wearing a GWB mask at the time?
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Sun 2 Nov 2014, 10:59,
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Meh.
Cunt as a word has transcended it's original meaning here in UK. It's used as an insult, yes, but it's not gender specific. I would say that a vast majority using the word are probably unaware of it's history. Language evolves and it always will. There will most likely be a day when other seemingly taboo words become "mainstream"
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Fadgebadger (1 like), Sun 2 Nov 2014, 9:03,
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