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To wince at the C word on MN

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Yarboosucks · 06/10/2015 18:43

I am certainly no prude and have not lived a sheltered life…. But I am amazed at the use of the c-word on here. I just don't get the apparent acceptance to use a reference to female genitalia as an insult. Do people use that word in RL or is it just here?

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ThumbWitchesAbroad · 08/10/2015 03:33

When was that then, Soupdragon? I've been here 7+ years and it's not changed that much in terms of swearing, I don't think. In fact, threads used to contain a lot more direct swearing at other posters, before the whole "not on to use personal attacks" thing was brought in.

I do think if people are going to be offended by the large proportion of distasteful language on here then they probably should try a different forum where it's not allowed.

SetPhasersTaeMalkie · 08/10/2015 07:14

This isn't about a large proportion of swearing though. It's about one specific word. I swear. Rarely on here but certainly I do in RL.

I don't use the c word and I don't personally know anyone in RL who does. If I heard it being used as liberally in RL as I do on here I would be moving rapidly away from them.

WhatamessIgotinto · 08/10/2015 07:22

Well I love a good ole swear when I feel like it but I hate the words cunt and cock. I've no idea why. They're just words and the whole 'it's a sign of limited intelligence' is a bit mortifying.

SetPhasersTaeMalkie · 08/10/2015 07:25

I don't think swearing is a sign of limited intelligence or vocabulary either. Just hate the c word.

Gottagetmoving · 08/10/2015 08:30

Of course it isn't a sign of limited intelligence or vocabulary.
It could be a sign of aggression or an inability to handle stress in a more positive way though?

MrsFrisbyMouse · 08/10/2015 10:33

Not bothered. But swearing does mean that a lot of mumsnet isn't 'worksafe' so will be blocked by internet filters etc

mileend2bermondsey · 08/10/2015 10:48

swearing does mean that a lot of mumsnet isn't 'worksafe' so will be blocked by internet filters etc
So stick to do work at work and chatting shit on the internet at home. Smile

MrsFrisbyMouse · 08/10/2015 11:48
Smile

But also may be blocked by public access spaces as well. Such as the Library.

DustyMaiden · 08/10/2015 11:59

I rarely swear but DH can behave in ways that mean there is only one word that will give the correct level of lalochezia. For me it
Is an acronym for Controlling Unreasonable Narccissitic Twat.

Vagabond · 08/10/2015 15:08

People who use the C word regularly in real life are the sort of people who think its ok and you will never change their minds.

It's kind of like Republicans who claim after a mass shooting that there needs to be more guns.

You just can't make them see sense.

MrsTerryPratchett · 08/10/2015 15:19

Lalochezia. Mmmmmm, words are good.

badtime · 08/10/2015 15:32

Yeah, Vagabond, guns don't kill people, people saying 'cunt' kills people. Hmm

What harm does the word 'cunt' actually do? Other than the damage to pearls from all the clutching, I mean?

LurkingHusband · 08/10/2015 15:39

Reginald D. Hunter has a line where he warns people he may use the word "cunt", and then comments that if he were a woman he'd be far less offended by "cunt" than words like "you're going to get paid less because you're a woman"

Gottagetmoving · 08/10/2015 15:45

Why all this reference to 'pearl clutching'?

Just because some people don't like the use of the word 'Cunt' does not mean they are 'pearl clutchers' any more than those that do like it are rough as arses.

Pedestriana · 08/10/2015 15:52

Nope, no worse than saying Fuck or Fucker as far as I'm concerned. It ought to be a term of praise - cunts do an awful lot of hard work - they get stretched to their limits and take a right pounding in childbirth.:)

jorahmormont · 08/10/2015 16:02

The real c word should be "clunge". Yuck.

NedZeppelin · 08/10/2015 16:02

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpa4eaLS30A
Micky Flanagan - The casual cunting has started

Liquoricetwirl · 08/10/2015 16:10

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MrsTerryPratchett · 08/10/2015 16:15

It has always been the most crudest insults. Actually it hasn't. Read up on it.

overthemill · 08/10/2015 16:17

I hate it as it is usually used as an insult thereby suggesting that female genutalia are insulting. So I don't like it, have never used it ( not even during sex) and have asked DH not to use it. I also happen not to use the words for male genitalia as insults for same reason and get very cross when the word 'bitch' is used as an insult. There are very many words to use instead. But I am a liberal user of the word 'fucking' as in 'I don't fucking care what you think' as that isn't gender specific. There are loads of words/expressions I hate eg my DH uses the expression 'on the rags' to mean menstruation. Yuk

jorahmormont · 08/10/2015 16:17

Why do people who use it need luck, liquorice?

MrsTerryPratchett · 08/10/2015 16:19

msmagazine.com/blog/2012/11/27/c-is-for-cunt/

badtime · 08/10/2015 16:25

Okay, Liquorice, I get that you don't like it, but apart from your (completely erroneous) idea that it has always been 'the most crudest insults [sic]', what harm does it actually do ?

Notoedike · 08/10/2015 16:26

But isn't bitch just a female dog, I love dogs but I doubt they care about using bitch as an insult.

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