You C*NT
What is it about the word ‘cunt’ that gets people riled up?
I’m horribly horribly foul-mouthed, everyone who knows me knows that in the course of any day, unsavoury exclamations pepper my everyday speech, it’s just a part of how I express myself. In my opinion, all the words are just as bad as the others - the English ones anyone (when I get REALLY pissed off, the Korean comes flying out of my mouth (which is strange as despite speaking Korean at home, English has been my primary language since I hit the Australian school system)).
Taking a cig break at work earlier this week with one of the girls (who’s almost as foul-mouthed as me), after a bout of mutual venting, I mused out loud that I didn’t know what the deal was with people being hung up on the word ‘cunt’. Now, K (the workmate) is hardly the world’s most staunch feminist, but she grimaced when I said it and set about declaring that she didn’t use or like the offending word.
My point is this - everyone I know has no problem with using dick/dickhead/cocksucker/wanker (as well as many more unique combinations which I can’t be bothered listing) - they all refer to male genitalia, so what’s wrong with ‘cunt’? It’s just slang for a vagina, right?
(No, I’m not a complete idiot, I know there are connotations with the use of that word in a perjorative context, but I also believe that people should collectively PULL THE STICK OUT OF THEIR ARSES AND RELAX A LITTLE).
Mind you, I also refer to my cigarettes occasionally as ‘fags’, which I know gets on the nerves of some people, but I think it’s alright - it doesn’t come from the reference to gay folks anyway, but the old definition of the word fagot/faggot: a bundle of sticks/twigs bundled together, often for kindling for a fire)
Does anyone out there still take offense at the word ‘cunt’ being used? If so, why? And if not, why not?
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Ellie 
Pamela I used to dislike the word, but then I saw the Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, and there was an entire monologue based completely on the word, and I laughed the stick right out of my ass. Have you seen it? Has the Vagina Monologues come to Australia? It is fabulous and sad and lovely all at the same time.
The first time I went, there were a bunch of people who were obviously on dates, and the guys were all ‘I am SO getting laid tonight’ and by the end, the girls were all ‘My vagina is completely liberated and I think I’m gonna lay me tonight, sorry about you buddy.’ And there were lots of dejected looking boys leaving the theatre.
I think you would love it.
Ellie 
My mate was in a production of it a few years back but I didn’t get the chance to see it then, which I’m still peeved about!
You need to come out on the town with the martini monster and have a cunt off - and swap a few fags.