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Originally posted by purse junkie
No, I'm dead against allowing someone to sue over defamation for implying a lack of chastity--my whole point is that a woman being sexual should be viewed exactly as positively as it is for a man, so I won't support anything that implies that a double-standard is acceptable.
And Sebby, I'm with Anne Elk on the "c-word." Just like street harassment, it's often used as an implied sexual derogation and threat of violent action. The "d-word" simply doesn't have the same connotations and is generally used as a milder insult in milder situations. It's sexual, but just not used quite the same way.
p(suddenly thought of the implications if the boss walked in to notice a bunch of graphic sexual terms all over my computer screen)j
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PJ,
I'm going way out on a limb here... I'm not sure I agree with this, but I'll throw it out there.
You say cunt implies sexual derogation and violence while dick does not? I don't see any violence in cunt at all. Derogation... absolutely, but no more than the derogation in dick. Someone else posted earlier that cunt implied "sperm receptacle" - which, literally, it partially does (that is one of the functions of that particular organ). I sometimes get the feeling that the right to insult is based on power, so is it possible maybe, that some women don't like the connotation of "sperm receptacle" in cunt because it reinforces the fact that women are biologically more passive than males in the sexual act? This is all a bit beyond me, but I seem to notice in society in general that its ok to insult whoever's "doing the fucking" while its tabboo to make fun of whoever's "getting fucked" (that is not sexist in any sense - there's just no way to massage that point in the time I have). I sometimes think that the "violence" you see in cunt is actually its reinforcing a primordial "fucker/fuckee" power dynamic.
I don't think that power dynamic exists any more or should exist - fot that reason, women complaining about cunt is a double standard.
S(Ain't no anthropologists - just throwing out a theory)D
