To be offended by the use of this word in many threads?

[Sugarsandwich]

I am new to MN and tbh I am shocked by the regular use of the C word in many threads, using it as a term of abuse for (very often) men who have behaved appalingly towards their partners. It's not that I am against swearing in general, it just seems odd that a community of forward thinking supportive women would choose to use a word that actually means a normal, natural, sacred part of female anatomy to describe such vile and reprehensible men. Can anyone think of a creative alternative word to use instead?

Goodness.

You must have agonised about this OP.

People dying in earthquakes, election mania etc.

And your spelling is not quite right.

Do you think the OP will object to being called a goady fucker, for starting this thread, and then buggering off?

To be fair where I'm originally from it means couldn't as in 'I cunt get there in time'. I revert back to the accent at home just so I can get away with swearing in front of my mum and dad.

And just to exemplify.... "Appalingly"

Scary.

chipsandpeas Not only Glasgow, I well remember pub conversations in Edinburgh where an absent party could be described as "a right guid cunt", the highest compliment you could give a man (I never heard it applied to women). Otoh, "a right bad cunt" was a man with whom one would not trifle.

I quite enjoy using the word, but I never refer to my sacred vagina as a cunt so it doesn't have the same meaning for me.

Can anyone think of a creative alternative word to use instead?

Poo poo head.

Well, that was edifying. Off to bed now, folks, see you next Tuesday!

I've adopted one from watching Peep Show and occasionally called people Pissteeth...

Welcome to MN.
It's a commonly used word here.
If you don't like it, that's fine - you can either ignore it, hide all threads that it appears in, or go to a less sweary site where you won't see it.
What you won't achieve is stopping the rest of us from using it. :)

Hypercunt is a nice one as well.

We don't want to use an alternative word to cunt, we just want to use cunt. :)

but isnt one of the most wide spread insults dickhead a dirogy term of the male anatomy revolving around the penis? Why is this acceptable / not offended

But use a term relating to a vaginia and omg its sooo offesive etc?

Too tired for anything more.

Temple of the Sacred Cunt sounds like a good place to worship, or perhaps it's a new Indiana Jones film.

In these days of equality lets not forget to worship the male anatomy too. Temple of the Sacred Cock?

Another one here who is used to it being used regularly, I'm Scottish.

I find it cathartic in a rant! Some people I know use it as a term of endearment- even adapting it to 'cunto'

Give it a year on MN OP and you'll be throwing it out there like a native.

BigRedBull

HirplesWithHaggis

ive spent more time with glasgow folk but dont doubt edin folk say it

To be fair, Ive been on mumsnet for many years and I also don't understand why anyone feels the need to say cunt. Do women who say it feel free for doing that? very bizarre. Maybe they think its "edgy"

C who must not be named!

I've never understood that dislike for a word.

I quite like cuntlord when cunt alone is not enough.

I always said dont call me a cunt as a its useful and disrespectful, i certainly dont want to keep saying cunt all over the place, neither would I like a guy that kept saying dick or cock. Its just some sort of ridiculous thing that people on here do thinking its freeing and their liberated... umm no not really

as in my vagina is useful in many ways and calling it a cunt is disrespectful thank you very much. Its a sort of "if you cant beat them" join them mentality really. Pretty stupid thing for women to do.

Why would you want to do that then NoArmani? very bizarre. Dont the same women call the men cunts on here when they are describing an abusive man?

Its a derogatory term for a womans vagina and no I dont think it liberating at all,