Normally I have little time for the woman,
but I found Germaine Greer's piece on why 'cunt' is infinitely less offensive than 'vagina'* to be most interesting.


*it means 'wound' EDIT or scabbard. Either way 'ewww, dude'
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 10 Jun 2011, 12:54, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Wound implies something bad.

( girlinthehole, Fri 10 Jun 2011, 12:58, Reply)

I thought it derived from the Latin
for scabbard?
I will happily stand corrected though.
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 10 Jun 2011, 13:00, Reply)

You are probably correct.
Doesn't make it any less of an unattractive term, eh? Quite possibly worse, in fact.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 10 Jun 2011, 13:02, Reply)

Definately worse
I was merely being a pedantic cunt.
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 10 Jun 2011, 13:06, Reply)