Crow's Eye: Maintaining a commitment to Pointless Acrimony™ and Hate Filled Invective™! Also available in corvid mischief and traditional sly dog's mistrust.
"...it's not the training to be mean but the training to be kind that is used to keep us leashed best." ~ Black Dog Red
"In case you haven't recognized the trend: it proceeds action, dissent, speech." ~ davidly, on how wars get done
"...What sort of meager, unerotic existence must a man live to find himself moved to such ecstatic heights by the mundane sniping of a congressional budget fight. The fate of human existence does not hang in the balance. The gods are not arrayed on either side. Poseiden, earth-shaker, has regrettably set his sights on the poor fishermen of northern Japan and not on Washington, D.C. where his ire might do some good--I can think of no better spot for a little wetland reclamation project, if you know what I mean. The fight is neither revolution nor apocalypse; it is hardly even a fight. A lot of apparatchiks are moving a lot of phony numbers with more zeros than a century of soccer scores around, weaving a brittle chrysalis around a gross worm that, some time hence, will emerge, untransformed, still a worm." ~ IOZ
I think it's an interesting discussion. I think Duncan correctly highlights the fact that in American usage, cunt* is so obscene precisely because it lost its applicability to men and therefore became something which no white knight male should ever use against a woman. A kind of doubled sexism.
* - etymologically related to "coney," as in rabbit, because (apparently) Roman soldiers thought of vagina as rabbit holes.
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I don't want to come off as half-cocked, but the gent's correct, cunt *should* have been accorded, verily, the same vulgar status all these yeares.
Word verification: tubjet.
I think it's an interesting discussion. I think Duncan correctly highlights the fact that in American usage, cunt* is so obscene precisely because it lost its applicability to men and therefore became something which no white knight male should ever use against a woman. A kind of doubled sexism.
* - etymologically related to "coney," as in rabbit, because (apparently) Roman soldiers thought of vagina as rabbit holes.
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