would you call someone a cunt to their face

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That's it really. Some posters seem happy to bandy around the term quite happily on here but I suspect they are all talk with very little trousers IYSWIM. There are others who I am very certain could call a fanny a vagina.
So AIBU in thinking people are vey happy to type the word but out there in the real world face to face with another human being they wouldn't have the front/arrogance/nastiness to do it?

I don't think I've ever accused someone of being a cunt face to face in anything other than an obviously jokey way. It's not a word I use often but then I don't swear much these days anyway.

I say the word on a daily basis as I've the balls to do it

I don't find the word offensive (not sure how much that is down to being Scottish). I dont use it often but would if it was appropriate, for example if I found out DH was cheating I would probably 'sink my teeth in his B U M and call him an effing cee'

For fuck's sake. What is wrong with people. "He massively deserved it"? What? He deserved being comoared to the female sex organ? Get a grip.

I object to it on the grounds that people who use it must have low intelligence if they can't see that there's nothing insulting about a cunt / vagina / female sex organ.

Reclaim the term and find other insults. Please.

greythorne - your post has made me re think my use of the word - i have always saved it as the worst possible insult, i shall now change my insult to something else! (im being deadly serious btw!)

suggestions on a postcard please

Excellent, jesus!

yup. work in a male environment in if I got the willies everytime someone swore around me I would be permanently willied.

Well, if we don't like the word, we need to come up with one that adequately expresses everything that cunt (when used as an insult) does.

Until then...mea colpos

auntiemonica :) :)

and have to agree with Greythorne and jesus - we should reclaim the word, but then i'd have to rethink my whole swearing repertoire and stop using 'prick' too, wouldn't i?

thats alright greythorne! god knows what im going to use instead though!

Nowt expresses cunt like cunt, sorry but it doesn't

thats just what i was thinking auntiem!

Oh no please don't make me stop using 'prick'...I love using 'prick'

fucknugget is a good one, and fairly non gender specific, non?

thats the thing isnt it, its such a wonderful 'sharp' word!, it conveys such huge aggresion (all good reasons not to use it given its meaning i suppose) and i think when i have used it i havent given the meaning any thought at all, just enjoyed the shock and awe it produces.

I like fuckwitted knobrotter

Is it not a North South thing though. I am in the North its a really dirty word. Somone told me in the South it is used more

and i would call a vagina a fanny

I love Chaucer's quente!

Thank you Punk!

Its a word that can be said with real vitirol. sharp, succinct and without the rick of saliva spray/dribble that ruins the moment.

Well we have just had a look in the Oxford English dictionary and "cunt" is in there. Not all uneducated use it. I've a masters and it's my fave word :)

Next you'll be saying bollocks is offensive

I'm the same as you pumpernickel

It's part of my daily vocab as in 'cunting iron won't work' etc

I'm very common