A Cunt Of A Word (NSFW?)

Women hit me a lot and generally I deserve it. I am insensitive, callous, sexist, politically incorrect, and for some reason have a much higher ratio of females to males in my group of friends. In my years of being a nuisance to the opposite sex, there is one word that causes the most rage.

Oh no he didn't.

In my extensive research for this article… I asked my roommate Ally (who was sitting right next to me) what she thought of the word ‘cunt’. Her response:

I love it. It’s just so accurate. You can call someone a ‘bitch’ and that could be a good thing. And it doesn’t really capture how upset you are. You call someone a ‘cunt’ and they know…. But women have more of a right to say it than men. It’s the ‘nigger’ of gender curse words.

Now that I’ve used both ‘cunt’ and ‘nigger’ in my post, we can be sure this blog entry will be up for Pullitzer consideration and I can get back to healthy discussion.

My roommate’s response is somewhat atypical of the general response I’ve got from women regarding the word in that she likes it. Most of my female friends who I have discussed the infamous C-word with immediately wash their hands of it. A terrible word. Despicable to call a woman. Ally did sum up the sentiment rather well at the end, however: “It’s the ‘nigger’ of gender curse words.”

The question I ask is, “Why?”

I’ve been called a “motherfucking assraping herpes harvesting ball sniffing Nazi douchtard cockmaster.” And that was just this morning at Starbucks.

"Only assholes order breve... queer."

Did I take offense? Not at all. But perhaps years of being an asshole has built up my sensitivity to ‘creative descriptors’.

So what’s the big deal with cunt?

Kate Millet, a feminist writer and activist sums up the mentality as follows:

 Somehow every indignity the female suffers ultimately comes to be symbolized in a sexuality that is held to be her responsibility, her shame [...] It can be summarized in one four-letter word. And the word is not fuck, it’s cunt. Our self-contempt originates in this: in knowing we are cunt.

So cunt is a symbol. For some the use of that word conjures all the injustices that man has propagated against woman since the dawn of time.

Damn cunt, chill!

I volunteered at A Night of A Thousand Gowns the other night, a very large drag show benefit put on to raise money for the LGBT community. I should devote an entire post (and  years of therapy) to this night, but for the purposes of this cunty, cunty post we’re going to focus on the biggest cunt of the night.

NOT a drag queen.... Right!?!

Lisa Lampanelli. Ok, full disclosure. I love Lisa Lampanelli. She’s a funny, funny, funny bitch. She did a routine at Night of a Thousand gowns and one of the thing she said she was proud of in her comedy is that she’s made the word “cunt” and acceptable word. Working to remove the taboo by sheer volume… The cunt says cunt a lot.

But she made a great point that night, “Any woman I know would rather be called ‘cunt’ than ‘fat’…. I’ve never heard of a woman asking her husband ‘Honey? Do these jeans make me look like a cunt?”

I like the way LL…. yes LL, we’re on a nickname basis… goes about the problem. Remove the taboo by refusing to treat it as such. That’s been my problem with many of the hot button words we have. When you make them violently taboo, that only reinforces their impact.

...horsefucker.

On the flip side. Maybe that’s good? Hear me out. We’re a fucking foul-mouthed shit-spitting sack of assholes. We say these… horrible fucking things all the time. I can say shit, fuck, ass, damn, titty, lesbo, kike, llama vagina… and you barely even register that I’ve typed them. Why? You’re desensitized to most things. We say these things so freely, we’re running out of things to truly shock people with.

But CUNT.

Scholar Germaine Greer says:

 It is one of the few remaining words in the English language with a genuine power to shock.

Why would we we want to give that up. Someday my kids are gonna piss me off and I’m going to need to drunkenly yell at them in the grocery store. If I call them a “fucking cunt rag” and they just giggle because those are the words they saw on Sesame Street that morning I’m going to be pissed off.

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So… you know what… Nevermind. This article was a bust. Everyone keep their rage about their words! GET IRRATIONALLY ANGRY! That’s the only way that I’ll be able to piss you off in the future. And if I can’t piss people off, then what do I have going for me. Right? Right!?!

Good.

Well that’s my two cents, what do ya’ll have to say about it?

…you cunts.