Didn't want to hijack ABMs thread... But when I saw that I was thinking of something different. That one word that every woman hates more than anything else. The male equivalent I suppose is prick. But that word does not have the same charge as the word cunt. I wonder why that is? Its really the only cuss word that I pretty much refrain from using. Not sure why. The one woman I was mad enough at to consider using that word for....well....I was so mad at her that that word just didn't seem bad enough, and the word that popped out of my mouth was tarantula. It was my exwife. Funny thing was that after that I looked up that word and learned that after tarantulas reproduce they destroy their mate. Which seemed like an apt description of what she was up to at that time. What does the C word mean to you? Who do you think of when you use it....or do you?
while going to school at WSU the best burger joint in town is called "Cougar Country" and me and some friends visited it quite often. we got tired of calling it by name so we just started calling it "the count" but pronounced like you would cunt. got quite a few very weird looks from people when we'd be in public and called it that. i've never busted that out on a chick and i don't think i ever could. plus once you go there vocally that is it, you have no where else to go with words.
I see it no worse then calling a girl a bitch or something... and I use it all the time. "what the ****?" "ahhhhhh **** face!" love that word.
that's funny, the only time I ever seem to use that word is when I'm driving, not gender specific for me either. I was honestly surprised the first time someone said how offensive they thought the word was, for me it's just another insult equivalent to bitch, dick/prick, or asshole. Perhaps leaning towards the upper echelon of swearing, as in cocksucker, fucker, etc, but not by much. Maybe it's most offensive when actually referring to a vagina, but nobody ever uses it like that.
I didn't even know that it was a particularly offensive term... there's a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode where Larry David uses it to devastating effect and since then I've kinda known to be careful with it. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4E_7q4hzWFc&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4E_7q4hzWFc&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> That it's so forbidden, of course, makes it more appealing as a source of off-color humor and my friends and I use it rather regularly. It's about the only word, though, that we use amongst ourselves that we won't use in front of most people. Ed O.
I'm appallingly racist and sexist to friends and girlfriends of mine, because they know I don't mean it and find it hilarious. I tease friends unmercifully...they understand it's affectionate. But I'd never use racist/sexist terms among strangers, because it would be offensive/provoking/hurtful to people who don't know me.
