Swearing - the C word

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Do you use it? Is it misogynistic?
I had always avoided it but in recent times (awful things happening) have found it quite satisfying when other swear words don’t seem quite enough.
I do carefully police my use to a very small audience though either just when on my own ranting about various woes or iniquities to my cat, who is an excellent listener, or one close friend who is very feisty and loves a good swear as a stress buster.

I'm very relaxed about swearing, but it's not a not a word I ever use and I don't allow it in my house.
And I know posters will come on and say that it's a term of affection in their part of the world. No it isn't. However it's used it's a misogynist slur-people have just been gaslit into thinking it's OK.

Cunt used to be used quite liberally on MN 10+ years ago. The vibe of the site has shifted and become more conservative. At least we got over a tedious phase where trigger warnings were used to advise people about humour in posts which ruined the glorious irreverent tangent style of posting (last week's thread about cucumber/ courgette packaging was proper old skool MNing glory)

I'm happier typing cunt but don't tend to say it aloud. I'd rarely be infuriated enough to exclaim it. It would normally be a man to infuriate me to that degree and I don't like using female genitals to insult a man. It's ironic that female genitals are considered more shocking than male. Cock and knob can be fairly comedic. I suppose "shrivelled scrotum" could be suitably effective but it doesn't have that trickle off the toungue effect of anglo-saxon words.

It's an everyday word for many people in Scotland and because of it's common usage it's perhaps lost it's potency in Scotland.

I tend not to use it, even though I do swear here and there. However, today - unusually - I’ve used it a LOT. A horrible neighbour came up to laugh out loud at my other lovely neighbour’s very unwell teenager being brought home in a police van after a mental health episode. Actually cunt was too gentle a word for him, the horrific old fucking bastarding cunt.

And no I don’t find it degrading or misogynistic.

This post sounds very similar to one on another current thread. Wonder if it's the same poster with a namechange.
No it isn't an everyday word for many people in Scotland, I don't know anyone who uses it in their normal daily conversation or in the workplace. I'm in Edinburgh and I also mix with a number of Glaswegians. Don't see it as everyday language in the Highlands either.
I once accidentally saw the "comedian" Iain Stirling at the Fringe, where he did a routine around the c word. It involved him repeating it constantly and laughing because he thought he'd said something edgy. He didn't make any jokes just swore repeatedly.
Hilarious. Not.

Cunt? Yes, I love it because people can be so very prissy about it. It’s just a word, and has broadly the same meaning as twat or fanny which can also be used pejoratively.

No other profanities hit the spot quite like cunt and it’s a word we bandy around at work all the time.

No I've not posted about this before.

I use it, it’s not any worse than other swear words. Not sure why people hate it.

Absolutely not nope not me

My favourite swear word.

Cunt? Yes, it's a good one. I only use it to DH and a few selected friends in private though as some are still very offended by it and I do not care to upset others with cunt!

@TheMorels "Yes, I love it because people can be so very prissy about it."

How very adult of you! Nothing prissy about not wanting a word for women's genitals to be used as a serious swear word.

Where I’m from, it’s often used as a conversational term.

A: “Him over there, he just told me I’d dropped my wallet and gave it back to me”

B: “aw he’s a good cunt. Not many of them around now”

I'm Anglo-American, and I use it as do most of my American friends, so I don't think this is universally true.

I was a bit startled when I first moved here and referred to someone as a twat, and everyone gasped. That's such a mild word in the UK but more taboo in the US.

I use cunt all the time, especially when I am driving.

I can't stand it, never use it and rarely hear it so was shocked when it was on MAFS. I didn't know it was even a common word!!

My preferred word for my own genitals , when sexting my partner, not when I'm talking to a doctor 😷
My daughter and her friends ( early 20s)use it a lot, they will say someone looks cunty if they are looking very good, or serving cunt if thry acting in cool or assertive way.

Ah, come on: it’s more often used to mean an awful person than female genitals. And usually, in my experience, directed towards men.

Female genitals are not the only ones used thusly… prick, knob, wankshaft, scrote, dick, dickhead, cock, penis, knob end, bawbag, tool… all men’s bits, used as insults, against other men!
Is than men being misandrist?

I'm from south east London and it's almost a term or endearment round here.

I do reign it in and work and the like tho.

@IHaveDefectedToTeamDog "Ah, come on: it’s more often used to mean an awful person than female genitals. And usually, in my experience, directed towards men"

My point exactly!

Yes i say it
Mostly in a jokey way with afew members of my family - No idea why we started it

I wouldnt be bothered IF i was called one in a argument

There's going to be so much pearl clutching over Malta's eurovision entry this year!

Not sure we’re making the same point at all. My point was that it’s not misogynistic. How can it be if words for men’s bits are also bandied about as insults?

Cant you see the people clutching pearls about it, banning it and decrying its use are the ones giving the word its power? It’s the horror and outrage at its use that stokes its effectiveness as the sweariest of swear words; with the power to shock, offend and disgust.
Shrug it off and it’ll join the ranks of twat and dickhead.

Off for a google….!

May I introduce you to the Australians