Welcome to the first day of Spring one and all. Here in Bagwine, Ohio the sun will be shining; the birds will be singing; and the temp will be hovering around the 83 degree mark…
A beautiful, and incredibly rare type of first day of Spring in Ohio, indeed.
But I digress…which is kinda cool. See, I am so cool that I digress prior to pontificating upon my actual topic, leaving ample word count to cover my actual topic without future digression.
Anyhoo…
Today, I would like to exposiate on the word, “cunt.”
For some reason, no other word in the English language (American English, that is) is more offensive than the word, cunt…especially when directed at, or heard by, women.
The word “cunt” as far as anyone knows, has been around since the Anglo-Saxons brought it to England centuries ago. It was back then, but a mere word for the vagina…not an obscenity.
Then of course the English, as they always do, fucked things up and bastardized the entire meaning. The English (c. 1290) began to refer to prostitutes as cunts. So…
The word cunt went from being a word that described a woman’s vagina to meaning a prostitute. Is that so bad? I don’t think so, but then…
For decades, and actually for centuries, cunt went back to its origins as being merely a word for the female vagina.
Oh why did I say “female” vagina, you ask? Because blockhead Sean Hannity has a vagina and yet, is purported to be a male. I still haven’t thought of a name for his personal and physiological chaos.
Anyway…
After centuries of use, only relatively recently has the word “cunt” been considered a derogative term toward women, so I ask myself:
“How and why did this simple four letter word become such an offensive term? How did it become the Unholy of Unholies? Why are women so repulsed by it?”
After much back and forth over whether the word merely described female genitalia or was derogatory…
In the 1930’s here in our good ol’ United States, heap big censors of print, movies, radio, and the like, decided that “cunt’ was a derogatory term when directed at our homegrown, amber waves of star spangled womanhood.
Yes ladies, it was a bunch of old, stodgy white men that told you that the word “cunt” was and is, the most heinous of insults to be leveled against you, and that has been ingrained in the American culture for over eighty years.
Ironic, no?
Cunt…much like prick, dick, pussy, queer, nigger, loser, or any other insult, is no more nor less inflammatory than the other, and yet…
Many women, in fact many women I know, think that word cunt, is the end all and be all of insults.
Well…
It’s not.
Cunt is just a word…A word that was in Norse, and among the Anglo-Saxons, to mean vagina.
If women take the word cunt as an insult, and as an attack on them, they see themselves as under attack in a war of a word initiated by stodgy, old, white guys some eighty years ago, and ally themselves with them.
That's kinda sad. Maybe we should just stick to calling women who think like that, pussies. That seems to be an acceptable word.
Cheers!!
Matt-Man
Email: neshobadude@yahoo.com
Twitter: @mattmaniws
A beautiful, and incredibly rare type of first day of Spring in Ohio, indeed.But I digress…which is kinda cool. See, I am so cool that I digress prior to pontificating upon my actual topic, leaving ample word count to cover my actual topic without future digression.
Anyhoo…
Today, I would like to exposiate on the word, “cunt.”
For some reason, no other word in the English language (American English, that is) is more offensive than the word, cunt…especially when directed at, or heard by, women.
The word “cunt” as far as anyone knows, has been around since the Anglo-Saxons brought it to England centuries ago. It was back then, but a mere word for the vagina…not an obscenity.
Then of course the English, as they always do, fucked things up and bastardized the entire meaning. The English (c. 1290) began to refer to prostitutes as cunts. So…
The word cunt went from being a word that described a woman’s vagina to meaning a prostitute. Is that so bad? I don’t think so, but then…
For decades, and actually for centuries, cunt went back to its origins as being merely a word for the female vagina.
Oh why did I say “female” vagina, you ask? Because blockhead Sean Hannity has a vagina and yet, is purported to be a male. I still haven’t thought of a name for his personal and physiological chaos.
Anyway…
After centuries of use, only relatively recently has the word “cunt” been considered a derogative term toward women, so I ask myself:
“How and why did this simple four letter word become such an offensive term? How did it become the Unholy of Unholies? Why are women so repulsed by it?”
After much back and forth over whether the word merely described female genitalia or was derogatory…
In the 1930’s here in our good ol’ United States, heap big censors of print, movies, radio, and the like, decided that “cunt’ was a derogatory term when directed at our homegrown, amber waves of star spangled womanhood.
Yes ladies, it was a bunch of old, stodgy white men that told you that the word “cunt” was and is, the most heinous of insults to be leveled against you, and that has been ingrained in the American culture for over eighty years.
Ironic, no?
Cunt…much like prick, dick, pussy, queer, nigger, loser, or any other insult, is no more nor less inflammatory than the other, and yet…
Many women, in fact many women I know, think that word cunt, is the end all and be all of insults.
Well…
It’s not.
Cunt is just a word…A word that was in Norse, and among the Anglo-Saxons, to mean vagina.
If women take the word cunt as an insult, and as an attack on them, they see themselves as under attack in a war of a word initiated by stodgy, old, white guys some eighty years ago, and ally themselves with them.
That's kinda sad. Maybe we should just stick to calling women who think like that, pussies. That seems to be an acceptable word.
Cheers!!
Matt-Man
Email: neshobadude@yahoo.com
Twitter: @mattmaniws
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