C**t as a derogative term.

I hate something that is so beautiful being used as an insult, especially by women. I too think women should reclaim the word. @EdgeOfACoin makes excellent points about sexist language still being acceptable in a way racist language quite correctly now is not.

@HecatesCats

Are you able to point out which sentence in your paragraph of statements was actually a question in disguise?

No one needs to furnish you with answers Hecate, do your own work,go forth and figure it out yourself

Oh I see, no answer then

@HecatesCats

Well surely to understand why it's considered offensive to use in some parts of the UK leaves a question of why it isn't considered so in others?
Unless you prefer limited data skewed towards affirmation of your own opinion of course.

In my case, I have a black father and have experienced much worse name calling than a colloquial term for a body part over 50% of the population posses.

Perhaps start your own forum if you want to dictate or invalidate people's contributions? Just a thought.

Not sensitive. Just hoping to return to an interesting discussion about why it's considered far and away the most offensive word to use in many parts of the UK and maybe some interest in why women would find it offensive. Seems we've covered the fact that it's great to use it in parts of Scotland a lot

Has anyone said they want to stop others using it?

I haven't for sure.

I'm not sure why a discussion about why in done areas it's the worst swear word is the same as a call to ban it :/

I totally get that in some areas calling someone a cunt is the same as calling them a cock etc.

For many though, it is above and beyond the rest. It was to the only one bleeped on a TV prog the other day so it's clearly not just me. Thinking about why, given cunt means vagina, is interesting. To me, anyway.

Ahh yes cunting as a word
Cunting delivery was late, I was hanging about for ages

Glaswegian and occasional user of soundcunt and worstcunt. It's pretty common where I am. We must all be knuckle dragging louts. I must alert the neighbours

TW for sensitive types: It's also common to say "cunted it" as in fell on your arse (I know it doesn't mean arse before anyone feels compelled to educate me but it's far more common to use "fell on your arse" than "fell on your cunt").

I'd rather use it however I want than submit to people trying to police my language and I'll avoid doing the same to others. Same as many other swear words (with obvious exceptions), use it or don't.

I'm less worried about that word being taboo and more concerned about the fact we are seeing a much more extreme censorship of very common words that signify womanhood.

If you were looking at recipes to prepare all food & undertake all chores whilst your lazy arse of a man was sat doing nowt, that’s a problem
Planning your meals not a problem

I know, but I am very much in the baby steps of feminism and it's a frightening arena for the newbie.

Feminism doesn’t disbar women from looking at recipes @Ihopeyourcakeisshit

I don't actually hope anyone's cake is shit
It was said in a thread about recipe theft many years ago and in context it was very funny.
I do feel I might have to name change though, as it makes me sound nastier than I am.
Yes I am also somewhat embarrassed/conflicted about confessing to being on a recipe thread on a feminist board.

Why do you think it’s powerful Hecate, you put the work in, formulate an answer

It’s equally directed against men to defame character
And yes used by women to men As in He’s a bad cunt etc

Who are you mixing with that you have to call 'plenty of men cunts'?
I have never used it.

I’m laughing that @Ihopeyourcakeisshit is a user name. We weren’t allowed to say shit/shite as kids as it was considered too rude

I've called plenty of men cunts

It's just as relevant and interesting to discuss why cunt is NOT derogatory in some subgroups (was it never? Was it once and lost the negative connotation?) as it is to discuss why it's derogatory to many.

If you compare it to the N word I'm pretty clear why this is. It's not women who've reclaimed the C word is it?

Aim? I’m posting on a thread not holding a tutorial, giving my opinion
Mn posters are smart and resourceful they have google like everyone else, they don’t need educated

Thread can go in whatever direction posts take it.

I have disputed that use of cunt is for uneducated and or uncouth types and given examples

Or are we here to discuss why a word that means vagina is such a powerful insult?

Sometimes. And sometimes it doesn't, and it varies by subgroup.

It's just as relevant and interesting to discuss why cunt is NOT derogatory in some subgroups (was it never? Was it once and lost the negative connotation?) as it is to discuss why it's derogatory to many. Two sides of the same coin.

It's far more tiresome to have posters police the topic of the thread than it it to read posts on how different subgroups use the same word

I'm not remotely educated enough to engage in any discussion about etymology, linguistic culture or anything else.
I have Scottish and Irish family, I have lived all over the UK and it has always been regarded as 'the worst word'.
Nobody I know would ever use it, let alone in everyday language.
I would be quite judgey of someone who did.
I don't really think that makes me an intellectually challenged Mary Whitehouse type.

I really don't know what your aim is heels? Is it to educate people (some of them Scottish) about Scottish colloquialisms? Or are we here to discuss why a word that means vagina is such a powerful insult?