The "C" swear word

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Following on from my first ever post 🙈. I know I'm now going to get it. But... is the c word acceptable in everyday conversation? Ive read posts where it's just everyday language to some which I find bizarre. We're all adults but...thoughts please. Btw I'm waiting for the c rhyme/jingle/song.

I hate it. Not because it's "rude" but because it's misogynist. And I hate that women have adopted it rather than saying "Acrually, no, I am not going to condone and normalise the word for women's genitals as the worst swear word"

And no, there isn't anywhere in the country where it is perfectly normal to use "Morning, you bunch of cunts" to address a group of people, and where it is a regularly used term of endearment.

One of my favourite words.

It's used in my workplace, but only amongst the teams doing frontline work. Since the management cunts decided that our office could be used by any cunt who needs a desk, we are a bit more circumspect as to its, because there are some cuntish consultants currently occupying one end of the room and they are very uptight and don't appear sweary at all.

And they've commandeered our cunting meeting room so we can't even go in there and have a good swear in private. It's very frustrating when someone needs a vent of epic proportions.

O Bertrand you've awakened a startling memory. In the olden days when there were such things as sufficient nurseries for working parents, I went to look at one nearby with my 2 year old. In comes a late arrival with her 4 year old son.."Hello you fucking old cunt" he bawled cheerfully at the nursery nurse. Not often I go weak at the knees with horror.

It's a lovely word I am very fond of (but not to the point of using it at work; haven't tried it on my parents-in-law, suspect they might be slightly unsettled although they are excellent folks).

It has derivations: "little cuntie" - say, to address a kitten; or "skipping cuntily down the road" (that one I read on the Tube wall)

I honestly find it amazing how people use every other fucking swear but stop short at cunt as, you know, it's just an awful word No it really isn't, it's simply just word & it's this nonsense & pearl clutching that gives it such power.

"No it really isn't, it's simply just word & it's this nonsense & pearl clutching that gives it such power."

Oh fuck off with the "pearl clutching" Words have meaning and power, and there are reasons that "cunt" has always been considered the worst swear word. It's because men could not contemplate anything worse, more repulsive and offensive than a woman's genitals. Join in with the misogyny if you want to-many women do. But don't accuse me of "pearl clutching" if I don't join you.

Right back at you with your misogyny

I guess it is for a certain type of person. I think it's a vile vulgar word personally.

I hate it. I think it's the worst swear word and never use it. I'm happy to let fucks go left, right and centre though. It just sounds so coarse. If I heard someone at work say it I would complain.

Bertrand I understand your point about the history of the word.

But since it is, just a word, isn’t there room for women to appropriate it back? To use it in a softer, more affectionate way?

I’m not saying that I’m free enough to start using it at work (it would definitely get me sacked!) but in certain contexts can’t it be a positive evolution?

I have never understood how so many people can be so offended by a selection of letters pushed together to make a sound

What should be taken note of is the tone, context and facial expressions.
If somebody were to direct swear words at you personally with pure venom meant by it then be offended!
If somebody happens to say a sentence that happens to have 'swearing' in then get over it. It's just a sound.

If I heard someone at work say it I would complain.

I think if the work culture is a sweary one, you can't really choose which swears are allowed.

A while ago, we had an admin who was proper uptight. A colleague came in after an exceedingly difficult visit, in full-on cunty sweary rant. The admin told her not to say "Cunt".

Colleague replied "I've just been chased off a traveller site at gunpoint and I'll use any cunting word I want". Admin was told (privately) that she needed to be more understanding of frontline staff who face challenging, frightening and distressing stuff on a daily basis.

Admin was a twat though. She complained about someone having a cup-a-soup in the office, because there was a no hot food in the office policy, and she didn't like the smell.

I think it depends where you are in the country too.
I lived in Wiltshire and it was highly offensive there. So when I moved to Essex, i was shocked how frequently it's used in normal conversation!

"But since it is, just a word, isn’t there room for women to appropriate it back? To use it in a softer, more affectionate way?"
Why? Apart from anyone else, why would you affectionately call someone a vagina?

I work in a very male enviromemt (motor trade) where the word is used a lot.

I have a knickname for a girl that used to have affairs with married men and I ended up naming her Miss Cuntychops because i just couldnt abide her.

If someone has been a cunt to me then yes they are captain cuntbag/Mary cuntrary.

Of course anyone can use that word as and when they like and other people will form an opinion on them depending on how they view the use of that word.
I swear all the time but I don't call people those names as in 'You are a cunt'

It's a pretty horrible word and it's the one word I would not want my kids hearing or saying. Its not big, cool or clever.

When it's been shouted at you by a scumbag at work (drug and alcohol services and not all the clients were scumbags, just this one who regularly beat up his girlfriend and stole money from people with learning difficulties who used to come in to collect their money from social workers) with venom and spitting I'm afraid it's not funny. After that I find it vile and don't use it.
I don't tell others off for using it but it makes me uncomfortable.

I'm reading all replies and see that the majority are in the same frame of mind as myself. I did wonder what the hell have I wandered into here when reading posts where the word is used quite often!! Maybe I'll become immune after a while, but you'll NEVER catch me saying it, EVER

I use it sometimes in a jokey way with my friends or as an insult (mainly about politicians, I try not to swear at people irl)

I use it because I don't like that female genitalia is seen as that much worse an insult when people think male terms like dickhead are fine. They should be seen as equally ok or not to use imo.

OP might not be ready for a panel show Mark Steel suggested ..

Cunt or Wanker

with an interesting note that only Tony Blair seemed to generate a 50/50 response.

Or Stuart Lee- “It’s wrong to say that only racists voted for Brexit- cunts did too”

But I still think it shouldn’t be used - even though those examples are really funny.

As Scroobius Pip says “they are just words. Why give them power when you cower to them, it’s so absurd.”

It’s just a word, I can’t get heavily offended by it and I actually find it quite endearing.

It's a perfectly useful ancient word from Middle English via the Saxons. Not a word I tend to use daily as overused words tend to lose their oomph. Something very satisfactory about a well placed Cunt sometimes .