There is on word you really just can't say: the c-word!

[originalpckelly]

You can bunt or punt
grunt while you hunt
do a stunt you runt
but you can't say (insert c-word)

You can smoke a blunt
in the village of Lunt
and no it's affront
but you can't say (insert c-word)

[Extend a Hand]

1. WTF??

[NoPasaran]

4. Apparently Jane Fonda said it on live TV yesterday

More controversial than dancing the cha cha with Victor Charlie.

[Extend a Hand]

38. oh, thanks

I missed that and couldn't figure out what on earth this post was about.

[spanone]

2. but, i heard jane fonda say it yesterday...gotta love jane

[RaleighNCDUer]

11. Really? What was the context?

It's a word I never use, not because of fear of offense but because of a lack of context. I don't have a context for it that is not better met by other words - is it a purely sexual reference, or is it a sexual designation for a personality type, and if so, for what personality type? It is clearly not the female equivalant to calling a man a 'dick'; that would be 'bitch', I should think.

It seems to me to be nothing more than a condensation of all hateful thoughts about women - and I happen to like women, so it's a word I have no use for.

[spanone]

15. they were asking her about the 'vagina monologues' and she replied that she was

asked to do 'cunt'. i presume that's one of the features in the play....this was on the today show bwahahahahahahaha

[seabeyond]

28. ahhhhh

i like you. i just need to hear more from the men that like women. been hearing too much from men who dont and warpy my views. thanks

[IndieLeft]

31. My mother uses it for little old ladies that cut her off

And she screams it at the top of ler lungs at them.

And my mother... is NOT the type of person you would EVER expect to hear that from.

Shocked the hell out of me.

[MindPilot]

3. One of the original Heavy Seven...

Nice cadence, BTW!

[originalpckelly]

5. I mean, I think it's even worse than fuck.

Fuck is OK, people say that all the time. With it's prevalence in culture it has become less taboo. But (c-word) is not used much and it's still very taboo.

[ProfessorGAC]

41. Yep

And i think it's a LOT worse, not just a little. I can honestly say that i have never used that word, and i'm 51 years old.
The Professor

[Snotcicles]

6. Than I shunt. nt

[tridim]

7. It's too bad, because it's a fun word to say.

But I never say it because it's offensive to many people.

[spanone]

10. the brits use it as a term of endearment....good ole c*nt

[Beausoleil]

37. And if one can't say the letter "C"

Smoketoomuch: Yes, I'm sorry, I can't say the letter 'B'.
Bounder: C?
Smoketoomuch: Yes, that's right. It's all due to a trauma I suffered when I was a sboolboy. I was attacked by a bat.
Bounder: A cat?
Smoketoomuch: No, a bat.
Bounder: Oh...can you say the letter 'K'?
Smoketoomuch: Oh, yes. Khaki, kind, kettle, Kipling, kipper, Kuwait, Keble Bollege Oxford.
Bounder: Yes, yes but why don't you use the letter 'K' instead of the letter 'C'?
Smoketoomuch: What, spell bolour with a 'K'?
Bounder: Yes!
Smoketoomuch: Kolour!
Oh, thank you! I never thought of that. What a silly bunt.

[dysfunctional press]

47. and if they don't like you, you're a "bloody c*nt"....

eewwwwwww.....

[shanti]

14. fun?

i think it's a UGLY, disgusting word, and would lose respect for anyone who used it. :(

[tridim]

18. I'm just talking about the word, not the meaning of the word.

Kumquat is fun to say too.

[monktonman]

19. If watermelons are full of water....

what are kumquats full of???

[RaleighNCDUer]

20. I like 'frazzle'.

It just SOUNDS frazzled.

[Captain Hilts]

23. Understand. Thank you for the explanation. nt

[notadmblnd]

25. Ugly, disgusting?

As I understand it, it is a word used in reference to a female body part. If one thinks it is ugly and disgusting, I can't imagine what she thinks about herself. This is the reason I absolutly abhor religion.. it teaches one to be self loathing.

[shanti]

32. you might be onto something

i didn't invent the word...and don't think the body part it refers to is ugly or disgusting. however, the person who invented the word probably did!

dunno where religion came into this argument :shrug: i abhor it myself.

[notadmblnd]

46. I threw religion in because I think that is where self loathing stems from

But I have to say, that I've always felt it a compliment when people use words like cunt and bitch in reference to me as a women. It tells me that the person using those strong words are weak, feel powerless and are cowards. They will never win the real argument. So you see, I'm the one with the real power, therefore it's a compliment.

[shanti]

53. ok

although i don't share your opinion, i do see where you're coming from...:hi:

[niyad]

50. see #44 for the origin of the wrod

[Warren Stupidity]

34. ugly and disgusting?

yikes, you have major issues with female anatomy.

[Chovexani]

43. I happen to love female anatomy

Both my own and my girlfriend's, which is why I hate that word. Like a poster said up thread, it's like all of this world's hatred and fear of women condensed into one ugly word.

Unless you equate the actual genitalia with a vile epithet, in which case I have to think you have major issues with female anatomy.

[niyad]

49. see response #44 for the origin of the wrod.

[negativenihil]

8. give it 5 years...

and cunt will be the new fuck.

mark my words. heh

[Echo In Light]

9. Weird how we target sexual organs, sexual activity, and biological functions as epithets

And yes, it is odd how dick and asshole {and the host of variants} are acceptable, yet cunt if forbidden ...when clearly one isn't any more sacred than the other.

[BoneDaddy]

12. Are you kidding?

It is a great word.

[Virginia Dare]

13. Is the "t" word acceptable..

you know, the one that rhymes with "swat"?

[shanti]

16. ooh

there's another word that i hate and glad it went "out of fashion".

[Captain Hilts]

22. No. nt

[WinkyDink]

30. The cast of "Spamalot" apparently thinks so.

[annabanana]

42. no. . but it IS funnier than the C word

I mean, you can't say the C word when you're laughing, but the t word is silly and rolls right off the tongue...

[whatchamacallit]

17. I guess to some women it's like the N-word

I recently posted a video of Jarvis Cocker's song "****s are still running the world". I figured there was a good chance it would get pulled because some people would reflexively take offense to the C-word without bothering to take the message of the song in the spirit it was intended. I think it disappeared from DU political videos within about 20 minutes. I understand why, but it's strange the power that word seems to have.

[Captain Hilts]

21. Yes, it is. "Bitch" now has WIDER usage in popular culture and we're trying to hold off this one.

[niyad]

52. my favourite responses to "you bitch" are: "AKC registered, darling"

or, "I am not A bitch, I am THE bitch, and to you, I am MS. Bitch"

taking back words that were originally respected titles of goddesses is reclaiming our power, and refusing to let others define us.

[Zookeeper]

26. It is to me. The first time I heard it, it was used in anger....

nearly always in anger and as an expression of misogyny since then.

As a woman, I can own the word and use it in a positive context, but when a man uses it as an insult? Let's just say I lose a lot of respect for him and if he directs it at me, he may just end up with my fist in his face.

[canadianbeaver]

24. As a woman....I have no objection to it.....its just a word.....

as is many of the words people find offensive....just words.

I went to the Vagina Monologues...and I have now reclaimed that word....it has no power of offense over me any longer....

When it is used for hate......then those that use it in that context, I feel sorry for...for they are not worth my energies....not because they used the word...but because of their reasons for using it. HATE.

JMO.

[IndieLeft]

27. I thought it was okay...

As long as you are a woman

[WinkyDink]

29. Words are not "just" words, and every culture known to man has been aware of this.

Just ask any member of a racial minority.

[bobbolink]

48. "Just words" are very often the first step to physical abuse!

Use "just words" to weaken a person, and make her feel worthless, so she won't fight back when you begin hitting her.

All abuse advocates KNOW this, yet "progressives" want to say, "It's just a word... don't let it bother you."

BALDERDASH!

[Warren Stupidity]

33. The preposterous thing about this is that Fonda

was talking about the monologue she did in the Vagina Monologues.

[Bigmack]

35. I was a young Marine, so my ....

profanity/scatology/anatomy credentials are unsurpassed.

Yet I don't use the c-word.

Too much reverence for the organ for that.

Reverence, hell..... worship!

[LeftyMom]

36. Latin words are fine, and anglo saxon ones for the same thing are horribly naughty.

We're all getting worked up over a quirk of language that dates to the Roman conquest of Britain. I hope I'm not the only one who realizes how very stupid that is.

[annabanana]

39. Ah yes... those good old Anglo-Saxon four letter words..

They went out of fashion when the aristocratic Normans took over all those English castles.... and the language has never been the same...

[uppityperson]

40. Used in a nasty, derogatory,misogynistic way, true.

[niyad]

44. as inga muscio (and barbara g walker) have pointed out, that word was originally

a title of the goddess, and is, in fact, one of the root words in our language (knowledge, kin, etc.)

the last time a very angry man called me that (couldn't stand the fact that, unlike the women he knew, I bow to no man), I clapped my hand to my chest, and said, "ohh, you called me a ****) that's one of the titles of the goddess. I had NO idea you thought so highly of me" and gushed on like that for a minute or so. I guarantee he never used that word again.

most of the words deemed derogatory today were originally words of honour, and some of us claim them proudly. besides, it confuses the hell out of sexist jerks when one doesn't respond in shock.

[notadmblnd]

54. Paraphrasing what I said in another post..

it's all good!

[Cruzan]

45. Except for the English

I work with this guy from England and 'fucking cunts' seems to fall out of his mouth every third sentence.

[nomo]

51. Here's a song by The Queers

I think it's so stupid
Girls won't say this word
Like asking everyone to not say shit, say turd
Fall back 5 yards it's time to punt

I think "gash" is offensive
Not to mention rude
And I don't think about eating it
When I'm eating food
There once was some dude on T.V.
His name was Alan Funt

Just say c*nt
Just say c*nt
Just say c*nt
Just say c*nt

{Motherf**king lead guitar}

I hope you're not offended
By this little tune of mine
So girls please don't start to flip out
To say c*nt is no crime
The littlest piglet in the litter
is called the runt

{Chorus}