to think it’s a bit depressing that women still use these terms against other women?

By some people. I tend to stay away from the childish name calling which people on this thread seem to think is normal discourse.

You did, deservedly so 😂

I’ve just read that thread, and can’t believe OPs takeaway was that women were unkind on it. It’s not misogyny, that SIL is a grade A arsehole.

Ah yes! The "feminists" are the biggest misogynists of all! 😂

I reserve my use of cunt on here for the all the cunting men being massive cunts to their partners.

are you the SIL from the cake thread? i called her a cunt, i think, because she was behaving like one.

I'd like to add when posters call other posters "pick me"women or "handmaids"

Men get called pigs and dogs. What of it?

I would still call a man those words too 🤷‍♀️ it’s not that deep really

Well I am uncomfortable with it. Different standards I suppose.

I’m all for equal opportunities.

I’ll call a man or Woman a whore or a cunt.

I’ve called men slags before 🤷🏻‍♀️

If you’re acting like a twat you can be a twat.

I don’t gender my swear words.

I was responding to “If we’d be uncomfortable hearing men use them…”

I’m not uncomfortable with a man calling me a bitch. I’m uncomfortable with them anything that implies I should be in a kitchen or am in any way inferior, and particularly uncomfortable with the ones that rape and kill women.

There is really more to worry about than whether a man thinks I’m a “cow” or not. Like I said, not that sensitive.

Cunt is used all the time in Scotland, sometimes very affectionately. A bit like mate in England

Cunt (although it means vagina) is used equally for men and women. Although I don’t think I’ve ever seen it on MN..I must be missing out on all the really good threads! I think there’s plenty of offensive gender-based insults for men too - knobhead, bellend, dick, dickhead, prick, needle dick (🤣)
I really don’t think it’s that deep. Insults have always used names for both male and female parts. However it really pisses me off when anyone (man or woman but esp women cos I’d expect better from them) calls a woman a slut or a slag.

The OP us talking about women who are misogynists, not men.

I don’t feel any worse when a man calls me a bitch than if a woman did, because frankly I’m not that sensitive.

I think things like flower, pet, her indoors, anything related to how I should be baking cakes instead of working, “modern career woman”, are all sexist. I turned down a job once because the interviewer started a sentence with the words “Listen, sweetheart.”

Cunt is just a run of the mill insult, and it’s not sexist.

The worst men can do to us really isn’t hurty words.

So comparing women with animals? 😬

Think you’ve hit a few nerves here OP. Good on you. 🥰

Like other posters have said dickhead, cock, wanker etc. are insults used to specifically put men down so are they misandrist insults? Does anyone even give a fuck if they are?

The words cow and bitch don't exist specifically to put women down by the way. They were created to describe animals and then co opted as insults.

These are just words. Misogyny has nothing to do with it. It is not our fault that the men decided to pick the harshest sounding word and say it means a vagina. Its more to do with the letter sounds than the meaning. If it was meaning then why is cunt worse than fanny??? Answer me that.
I call men cunts all the time. Much more so than I do women. I also call women dickheads and pricks. They aren't gendered words that you can only call one sex. I also happen to like swearing.😂

I could...

Well if you'd RTFT you'd have seen that the Sil was indeed a cunt. If you can't handle swearing Mumsnet may not be the place for you.

Women are often called a bitch or a cow, while men are more likely to be called a prick, an arsehole, or a bollocks.

Cunt is an equal opportunities insult.

Men are referred to as cunts as much as women.

They're generally more likely to be referred to as: arseholes, wankers, pricks, pigs, bastards - are those misandrist terms?

Can you link it.