To hate the use of the word cunt on mns

[lesley33]

I have kind of get used to it over the months I have been on here. But I still really don't like the use of this word. It is a swear word for female genitals and I guess I think it is a fairly misogynistic insult to use. And it does surprise me that posters who in other ways seem very liberal use language that I see as misogynistic and disrespectful towards women.
So AIBU to think this?

Interesting - thanks I will have a think about this. Yes I have seen the vagina monologues, but as I said upthread my issue is cunt being used as an insult or swear word rather than the word itself. And I think Maya uses the word as a descriptive word.

I have never used it. I can't. I have tried. I have asked for training. But I just cannot bring myself to do it.

I think it might be my age.

It's difficult because my Serbo-Croat (old school) great aunt is called Acuntia, so sometimes I have to use it.

Try saying Aunt Acuntia after a few schnapps.

Will try tonight Hully

yes dear hully

attention seeking cunt!

Hate it too. Hated it in the Vagina Monologues too.Wasn't too struck on the whole show,thinking about it......

I don't like the word cunt.

Can't really explain why.

Gonna position myself over all the "Can't decide on a name for my newborn - any suggestions?" threads and keep saying "Anacuntia, Anacuntia, Anacuntia" LOL!

I think I know why.
Because I've heard it used with such out and out contempt towards women in the past.
I don't use it.But I'm not particularly offended by other women using it.
I pull DH up on it if he uses it so I clearly don't like men's use of it.
Whether that makes me unreasonable I don't know but I am what I am.

FUD its a scottish

Yep I love the word fud, you hear it pre watershed.

I suspect its because lots of people don't know what it means. I wouldn't have a clue. It reminds me when the song "pass the duchy" was number one and a radio DJ informed people that Duchy meant cooking pot! If it had been called pass the spliff, it would have been banned back then.

Oh very well known in Scotland, I used to work with a woman who described her hair as looking like a witches fud if she hadn't brushed it.

I would have been if I had known what it meant. At my workplace people just wouldn't say even very mild swear words

I think there's something about the sound of the word 'cunt' that is particularly harsh and offensive, which is exactly why it's useful to keep in reserve. Sometimes people really are cunty, and no other words fit IMO