The word c*nt ?

[user1486131602]

Can I ask why anyone would think it was ok to use this word?
Or to call another human being this.
I personally, think, and it’s only imho, but it the most debased word ever. As a child, where I live, you would only ever hear dockers and like using it! I hate it.
Now, it’s flung around like an adjective? Why?

Rivers - he is, I’m not!

I know he's getting quite a reputation on Mumsnet, that scallywag

What a cunty thread. It's just a word, OP. Don't sweat it.
Cunty mccunterson is my nickname from my sister.

I wouldn't say it was an adjective, more a noun. Or in DD2's case when she mis-spelled count in a piece of writing that the teacher displayed on Parents Night (we took turns to cunt, when I cunted etc), my husband said to the teacher "I never knew that could be a verb".
My friend was upset because a customer called her a cunt so I borrowed a line from MN to remind her that cunts are really useful with depth and feelings. It's not really an insult at all.

This is actually the only word I find offensive and never use it. I think because I once heard it being used to describe a child. All other words are fair game though.

He covers some ground, that lad.

All other words are fair game though

Interesting. I disagree. I have real issues with words that are used as racist or homophobic slurs, for example, but I think cunt is fine, in the right circumstances.

I hate it and would never use it.

Have also lived in Scotland all my life and never among people who use it, so it's not an everyday word to all Scots, thank goodness.

ConfusedBeetle I'm another that doesn't particularly like it and I feel a bit bemused at some posters labelling us as a group of "pearl clutchers" when nothing could be further from the truth. I don't have to justify my dislike of the word - I'll just point you in the direction of confused's post up above. ALL words are just a series of letters, phonetics, sounds etc but it's association and intent that does harm and cause hurt. The word hasn't evolved to THAT extent - no matter how many of you try and justify it using humour.

It's not a word that brings me any humour, I just see malice and insult. It's not something I'd want to hear my Dad using, nor my children, and I wouldn't ever say it to, say for example, good old Mr Tom who's a war veteran and plays the organ at my local church. I hear pupils - children - in my school using it regularly and it disturbs me to hear it normalised in their world. We could argue that all offensive slurs should be normalised - where do we draw the line?

Yes language is a tool and all words have associations. For everyone who claims its just a word, where do you draw the line? Are you OK with a man verbally abusing his wife? A mum her child? Because after all.. Just words.

Well welshmoth said it better.

There's a difference between a word and how is its used.

There are plenty of words that aren't offensive in their own right - but put them together in a certain way and they will be designed to hurt and offend.

'your father doesn't care about you' no offensive words, but could be malicious in intent.

Choosing to find a word offensive without context, in most circumstances, is odd.

dontdoubt good examples there.

OddHoley

There are words that cause offence or cause a reaction without context - of course there are!

If you find a note popped through your letter box with the words c*nt on it, you'd not be bothered?

Or a Mum cuddling her baby and saying "you gorgeous little bitch/c*nt" - in the context of giving affection but really inappropriate? You wouldn't question that?

Everyone uses that word where I live and work...South London lol

In America it seems it's a word only directed at women, and when I hear it used by a man to a woman on TV I shudder. There's something sort of violent in that.
I don't mind the word if it's not an insult, or just used as a noun. I'm not squeamish about Anglo saxons words in that regard.

I hate the word, I cringe when I read it ( only read it on her ) However totally agree with Decormad The way the Hound says it ....Totally acceptable 😁

Very problematic word in the North West. See at 2:40. 🤭

If you find a note popped through your letter box with the words cnt on it, you'd not be bothered?*

The context there could be its an anonymous note with no obvious, reason, then it is clearly designed to be offensive.

Alternatively it could be that it's an in-joke and your mates way of letting you know they are back in town. Not offensive.

Either way, there is context.

And calling a baby a cunt would just be plain weird. Of course I would question it.

I dumped someone for calling me this once. In my book it is just horrible.

But isolate the word even further - don't assume it's a mate saying it to you. If you have no idea of intent, how would you view it?

Carla Are you single?

It's just a word, you could choose a word like purple and make it offensive if enough people decided it was offensive.
You choose to be offended.

I would find anyone addressing me aggressive with any swear word offensive, I don’t see why cunt is particularly offensive.

I use it, but not with malice. I don’t swear at people. But I do affectionately call friends a cunt (Scotland) and I do use it to describe my own cunt. It’s a powerful word, and far better than the misogynistic vagina.

There are far worse words than something that describes female genitalia. If someone called me a slut, even in jest, I would be less than thrilled.

I think it’s misogyny that makes us think a perfectly normal old word for our genitalia is the worst thing you can say.

@LadyMonicaBaddingham Yes indeed!
@user1486131602, the Vagina Monologues taught us to love the word Cunt. It's a lovely word.

But isolate the word even further - don't assume it's a mate saying it to you. If you have no idea of intent, how would you view it

I didn't assume it was a mate. I gave two examples of how context was important. One positive, one not.

Without context its just a word that society tends to view negatively, but like most words its neutral until it is given context.