AIBU in being surprised c**t is used as an insult on MN

[Caitlin17]

Firstly apologies if anyone thinks I'm being twee using asterisks but it's not a word I would use in either of its meanings, but I am surprised that it is used(exclusively?) as an insult here.

This site is largely populated by women many of a feminist and /or liberal persuasion. I'd have expected there to be some(a few?)who would seek to reclaim the word in its biological sense.

Is it beyond redemption in that sense?

I can't seem to refer to any woman as a c*, but there again i'm old fashioned.

Just to be clear - a nonce is a very unpleasant word to describe a paedophile. I would be disturbed if I heard a child using it.

sqoosh but I don't use cock or dick as an insult either. Phoolani is correct, words have power. Dick as an insult does not raise an eye brow on a BBC 4 /Channel 4 sitcom. I can't recall cunt being used in that way.

A nonce is a term for a sex offender. Not a pretend swearword. Basically, accusing them of fiddling kiddies.

Exactly. Why? Is there a insult relating to male genitals that is considered quite so offensive? No, there isn't. What is that do you think?

Why is that...

That's my point, I don't see 'cunt' as being any more offensive than 'cock' or 'dick'. I use them all. People who use those words but blanche at anyone who says 'cunt' are the sexist ones.

Well that's fair enough if you refuse to use any swear words Caitlin.

Beyond surprised that kids use the word 'nonce' to insult one another. Have never come across that.

Twat is a euphisism (sp) for women's genitals, its used often here. Bollocks is and I could go on, about references to bodies so I don't entirely see the difference tbh. We all know where 'fuck' came from and 'bastard' etc etc

No more swearing then?

you lot

you upset mw you much

you vulvas

I agree wholehearedly sqoosh If someone called me a fucking cunt. I would probably get the impression I wasn't their favourite person and the level of offence was meant to be somewhat greater than 'you silly billy.'

But would I think being called a fucking cunt was any worse than being called a fucking dick, a fucking cock or a fucking bellend? Nope. I'd see them exisiting on much the same plain.

that's what you are are big group of vaginal vulvas beefcurtain pissflaps.

Sorry but you are

I'll get my coat [cunt]

Outside of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels I don't think I've ever heard "nonce" used.

Sqooshyou may think these words are all equally loaded but they aren't. Dick is acceptable on television and film as a comedy word. I don't think cunt is.

It should be equally loaded though shouldn't it?

Exactly Caitlin and they never will be if people creep around the word acting shocked and horrified. The more it's used the less shock factor it holds.

but I don't use cock or dick as an insult either. Phoolani is correct, words have power. Dick as an insult does not raise an eye brow on a BBC 4 /Channel 4 sitcom. I can't recall cunt being used in that way.

That's the point OP... Why? It's all the same style of language

And then there's the 'Jesus' and all that so why differentiate?

And my poor Auntie Gideon takes it all well

sqoosh except the consensus so far on here seems to be no one uses it in a biological sense, but some use it as an insult. The male equivalents can be used either way.

The difference is, is that calling someone 'a nonce/a paedo/a kiddy fiddler ' accuses the person of committing an illegal and deeply taboo act.

A cunt is just part of a pantheon of slang terms derived from genitalia that can (in some contexts) be used as an insult.

I disagree Caitlin.

You've clearly never met my friends.

Monty you seem to be asking me to justify the difference? I don't know, I don't write tv sitcoms.

Why do the female genitals offend you so much, presumably you have a cunt?

'Nonce' is 100 times more offensive than 'cunt'. Good grief, how can anyone claim otherwise.

sqoosh you've lost me with your last comment.