tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102937856333775840.post5914772820369202908..comments2023-12-23T19:04:18.739-05:00Comments on The Crow's Eye: Coney IslandJack Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499087036876745723noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102937856333775840.post-43488373280278122062010-12-22T10:44:27.459-05:002010-12-22T10:44:27.459-05:00I think it's an interesting discussion. I thin...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.<br /><br />* - etymologically related to "coney," as in rabbit, because (apparently) Roman soldiers thought of vagina as rabbit holes.Jack Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07499087036876745723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102937856333775840.post-81150864188033347972010-12-22T10:17:22.159-05:002010-12-22T10:17:22.159-05:00I don't want to come off as half-cocked, but t...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. <br /><br />Word verification: tubjet.Randal Graveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08728992897551848531noreply@blogger.com