To wince at the C word on MN

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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?

I think a lot more people were a lot more uncouth in ye olden days...

“The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.” Attributed to Socrates. People were so uncouth in Ancient Greece, and the Victorian era, and in Roman times, and those Aztecs

Totally wasn't Socrates. Sorry.

I am immensely couth. Always.

The feminists like reclaiming it from the patriarchy. Or summat.

..and I would bet my beef curtains that those mners who use it, like, all the time on here wouldn't dare use it in RL.

Thanks for posting that article MrsTerry, it was an eye opener. I swear, and love the word twat, but have never been able to bring myself to say cunt. Again, as pp's have said, I don't know why. I'm going to try it out with my DH now though - baby steps and all that

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

I don't understand why words for genitalia, so useful and a source of pleasure, should be used as swear words. I've asked this before and never got a convincing reply.

I never hear cunt used in real life. In real life I suppose if I did I'd find it threatening and aggressive. On here it come across as very much too cool for school / wannabe Irvine Welsh/ ooh look at me.

It doesn't impress me; nor does the inevitable and hackneyed "pearl clutcher" response which always gets trotted out.