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Traitorfish said:
The tortured logic by which Americans have convinced themselves that "the c-word" is some sort of slur, and not just a perfectly ordinary swearword, like all the other swearwords you know and love, is more offensive to human dignity than the word itself could ever be.

I mean, grow up, jeez.
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Yeah seriously. Women call men dicks all the time, why is the reverse so horrifying?
 
Narz said:
Yeah seriously. Women call men dicks all the time, why is the reverse so horrifying?
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Because

No, literally. Because. We always need a set of swear words that are worse than the rest, and currently it's one of those words. Because. Because because.

We use other words for vagina that are considered vulgar, but not repulsively inappropriate
 
We also have a near infinite array of words for penis, and I can't think of any that are considered any more than mildly vulgar. Certainly none that are repulsively inappropriate, though perhaps I'm just sheltered.
 
"Whore" is a massive step up*, Protestant work ethic and all, and I can't call real people who aren't my friends that, publicly, with my real name, and remain securly employed either, right? Different rules for comedians though, I'm certain. That's sort of what they do.

*I'm aware I'm not British here. One of the more interesting "whuuuuAAAA?A?? -- oh. nm, I guess." sort of moments I've had was hearing a man I had gone on a week long bachelor's party bender with refer to the weather as, "It's really punting down out here." Probably one of the only times I've looked at somebody and legit thought, "Well, my. That's earthy." :lol:
 
Timsup2nothin said:
As I have said, when you start demanding that your need to relitigate Zimmerman be pandered to yet again, I tune you out.
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Answering a question is not pandering... And you tuned back in for my response to Zkribbler at the end of the post. You accused me ignoring her sins when I criticized her right above the quote you used for your accusation.

It appears Valerie Jarrett was born in Iran, I guess thats the Muslim Brotherhood connection.
 
Valka D'Ur said:
Okay, so it's a kind of slang that's become more popular in recent years. Clarification is still needed, since the definitions I found of "orthogonal" involve mathematics, which has nothing to do with this conversation.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/11/AR2010011103690.html

Valka D'Ur said:
If a woman told you not to call her the "c-word" would you comply?
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I can't think of any scenario where I would stop being deliberately insulting to someone because they told me to stop.
 
Tigranes said:
It is especially disgusting when it is done during the prime time when children might be watching. :mad:

Look, I dislike Trump like the next guy. I am a (legal) immigrant myself. But people like Samantha Bee do not help the cause. Being a comedian does not give you license to degrade people. And I can't help but agree with Fox that unlike Roseanne there will be no cancellation of Full Frontal and no 7 days 24 hour coverage of this remark. Which, unlike tweet, you cannot even delete.

Samantha Bee deserves backlash and boycott :vomit:. TBS has to take her off the air. And then some. Replace her with someone who can actually help immigrants and their kids without using vulgarities, reaching for lowest of low and degrading another woman.
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*laughs in Australian*
 
Birdjaguar said:
Its use has gone beyond a name for a body part and become degrading, often meaning that the target is nothing more than that body part and its usefulness to men.
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Timsup2nothin said:
When it is said to such a woman it is taken to mean exactly what BirdJag went on to say; that the particular targeted woman is of no value other than as a life support system for genitalia.
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You know, I'm pretty sure I've literally never heard it used to mean that. Of all the taboo slang words related to genitalia I don't think there's one that, in actual usage, sits further away from its literal anatomical meaning. The fact that it's usually reserved for men kinda necessitates that.

Then again about the only time I've ever heard American pop culture use it properly is Azalea Banks in 212, who uses it in both in the literal and pejorative sense. Which is quite impressive.
 
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Farm Boy said:
Maybe punting in public is ok if you're a professional punter? I dunno. Who is this person anyways? Is it somebody you have to google, or is it somebody I was apparently supposed to know about like the Kardaishian people with the butts or the British people with the me(n)tal hats?
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What do you understand "punter" to mean, btw? Is this a kicking reference or to gambling?
 
Arwon said:
The fact that it's usually reserved for men kinda necessitates that.
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In my experience, all in the US, it is the only female genitalia word that isn't reserved for men. I honestly can't think of ever hearing it aimed at a man, myself, and as a former navy sailor, former prison inmate, former car salesman I could have an advanced degree in vulgarity use.
 
Synsensa said:
Ah yes, the joke of comparing black people to apes. Something the whole family can laugh about.
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But black people are apes! Just like white people and all the other kinds of people.

Not that this excuses calling someone an ape in a racist way in the slightest. Instead it makes it look ridiculous in addition to offensive.

I dislike that racist use in part because it distracts from the way I usually use the word "ape": to talk about all of humanity and the whole human project. Really, all of human history and prehistory, everything we sit around jabbering about, is all because some ridiculous bipedal apes with unusually large heads, breasts, and penises started lighting things on fire and killing everything in sight with flint-tipped spears. It all snowballed from there. And now there are apes staring into glowing rectangles getting angry when other apes put things on the rectangles that they didn't like.

Ape angry! Other ape make bad vocalization! Other ape put bad thing on rectangle! Ape try to take social status from other ape! Bragh!
 
Arwon said:
You know, I'm pretty sure I've literally never heard it used to mean that. Of all the taboo slang words related to genitalia I don't think there's one that, in actual usage, sits further away from its literal anatomical meaning. The fact that it's usually reserved for men kinda necessitates that.

Then again about the only time I've ever heard American pop culture use it properly is Azalea Banks in 212, who uses it in both in the literal and pejorative sense. Which is quite impressive.
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Welcome to American vulgar slang. :)
 
I just find it endlessly funny that you're all more squeamish about the word than, like, my wife
 
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