My word of choice to describe a woman's genitalia... is actually ... even in these liberated circles! I don't get it, at all. What is so offensive about the c-word? Surely it is preferable to infantile euphemisms (I'm sorry, but I don't see what is polite about calling my genitals after small furry mammals?) or names best reserved for medical textbooks? This is a sincere question - I am only a dodgy foreigner after all, so I believe I am lacking the necessary cultural context/experience that would give me the full impact of this word!
TBH I've never considered it in much detail. As a vulgarism, I suppose it's a sort of self-fulfilling circular argument. We're brought up to regard it as the ultimate word, hence we don't use it (unless under extreme duress) which keeps it's status elevated as such. For me, I find it too hard a word to describe something so soft and capable of ultimate pleasure. ;)
But thanks for bringing it up: It made me go looking, which means I found very interesting analys of the word.
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Cunt comes from the Saxon language. After 1066 the Normans started to impose Norman French on what remained of the Saxon ‘rules classes’. Many perfectly expectable words that are still used in Nordic languages became ‘stained’ in occupied England.
The Normans change sexual practise overtime, requiring marriage permission from the over load. In fact after 1066, every woman in occupied England became the property of their father or husband or over load.
The simple fact is the Normans screwed with everything. Cunt was and in my opinion still is a perfectly expectable word.
If the use of this word becomes common-place and acceptable, what is kept in reserve when something more is needed? For me I would have to be VERY VERY close to someone even before I used it in a friendly way.
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What does it mean? .... I get called one all the time, usually by quite young and somewhat inebriated ladies.
Shakespeare had no problem using the word, so why should we?
I don't think it's always offensively . It can be playful and friendly or full of agression and venom, depending on the context. 'Fuck off you daft cunt' is very different from 'Go fuck yourself you thick fucking cunt', and different from 'I love the taste of your cunt you dirty little bitch' again. It's all in the intent.
Ooooh I love words.
Read that book that sold a lot over christmas, the etymologicon jolly good.
Cunt, cant add much to neils post really. Contetxt is all. Minx hates the word but that's just her I spose.
That said Im a bit like that myself, I cant abide the words fanny and panties.
Its on the telly quite often.
Wasnt there a furore when Sandy Toksvig pointed out on the radio at teatime that the present government had put the N in cuts.
As long as it smells good I'm all for tasting it!
A Navaho Indian told me a Squaw was a cunt, not woman. That did not stop the American invaders calling all Indian women squaw,(cunt.
The same could have happened in England. So cunt would have became an insulting word.
I'm not averse to using the word cunt .... it is a joyously transgressive word long may it remain
Well in my humble opinion, based on my limited experience of life as a man, the word "can't" seems to cause more problems and unhappiness than the word "cunt"!
so fuck it is what I say!
I do not believe any word to be
However, I choose the type of vocabulary according to the company I am keeping at any one time, and the situation I happen to be in.
Its probably to do with the reliability and predictability of the condition........
There's always a cunt sonewhere..........
I like the word when applied to ladybits. It is suitably powerful.
If said with disdain in an insulting manner then yeah, I'd likely be offended. But I'd take offence at the sentiment, not the word itself.
LG. x
