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Old 04-30-2003, 09:37 AM   #3761
Anne Elk
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Towards gender-neutral cuss words

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I have always found certain prissy chicks' disgust with the word cunt to be pretty damn hypocritical and hypersensitive. Use of the slang term for male genitalia as an insult is widely accepted. Never in history has a man stalked away from a conversation stating "I hate the word 'dick' - it disgusts me". Yet some women seem to think they have a right to be appalled at the use of cunt, like its somehow worse than dick. Seems to me that the two words are absolutely equal in their potential offensiveness, so why is one villified while the other is used on television?

I think the hypersensitivity toward cunt is sexist - it implies that women are somehow less able to handle the use of a common slang term.
I don't think our dislike is hypocritical or hypersensitive. Unless you are a woman you don't understand the daily battle we wage in being accepted for who we are, NOT what we look like or what sort of recreation we can provide. The c-word implies that I am nothing better than a receptacle for sperm.

It's like walking past the construction site and being sexually harassed. Although I must say the guys on the Big Dig don't really do it anymore. It's the crowd at the train station that's really bad. The nice weather comes and I have to take the train one stop farther in order to not to be harassed on the way home,
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