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Originally posted by soup sandwich
Then my question would be: does being called a "dick" imply I am nothing better than a sperm provider?
And if it did mean this, why would this bother me, a man, less than it would bother you, a woman, being referred to as a sperm-receptacle? They're both equally asinine insults. I couldn't give two shits if someone tried to imply I was nothing more than a sperm-giver.
I guess I'm just wondering why you would give the word "cunt" so much power. It simply means that a person is really rotten. Richard Gere used it perfectly in An Officer and a Gentleman.
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Words have power. It's not so much the literal meaning of the words, but all the cultural baggage that goes along with it. The chicks here have a point that calling someone a cunt is different from calling someone a dick, even though they are both slang words for gender specific and sexually related body parts.
Look at it this way -- the n-word is a disparaging word used to describe black people, and cracker is a disparaging word used to describe white people. Both are slurs directed towards skin color. Would you agree that I am probably less likely to be bothered by being called a cracker than TM would be bothered by being called the n-word?
(edited to add the "probably" part)
