I was about to respond but Tibbers did it for me

(July 6, 2016 at 9:20 am)Expired Wrote:

(July 6, 2016 at 9:06 am)bennyboy Wrote: Nobody calls a girl a "dick" or a "cock."  Why do you think the flow of ideas is one-way?  There's a meaningful difference between using a male-genitalia word about a male, and using a female-genital word about a male for that "extra sting". . . isn't there?  It seems to me that people think referring to a male with any words that originated as female is extra hurtful. . . and I think that's sexist.

I called my workmate a tit yesterday, he was fine with it.

It can be ok if you have a Tit for Tat situation.

(July 6, 2016 at 9:06 am)bennyboy Wrote: Nobody calls a girl a "dick" or a "cock."  

Yes they do.

Furthermore. What relevance is that?

The point is using the word "cunt" is no more sexist than usi--- oh fuck this I can't be bothered you're gonna keep thinking I'm sexist for saying cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt fucking cunt anyway.

Oh and I've been called a fanny on numerous occasions (fanny=vagina where I live)

(July 6, 2016 at 8:40 am)bennyboy Wrote: Ladies, am I wrong?  Has the word lost its power now through overuse or expanded usage, so that it's no longer considered a misogynist term?

Context, dickweed cuntnovice, context:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXWBvB4U-cA

(July 6, 2016 at 9:29 am)Expired Wrote: Oh and I've been called a fanny on numerous occasions (fanny=vagina where I live)

And guys can be bitches too.

(July 6, 2016 at 9:31 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote:

(July 6, 2016 at 9:29 am)Expired Wrote: Oh and I've been called a fanny on numerous occasions (fanny=vagina where I live)

And guys can be bitches too.

And we are sometimes.

I've called women "dicks" many times in my life, and I also refer to men as "bitches."

Equality FTW.

(July 6, 2016 at 9:17 am)Tiberius Wrote: Speak for yourself. I use those words to describe women, just as some women use the word "bitch" to describe men. There's not a meaningful difference to most people; it just exists in your SJW head. There's no extra sting by referring to a guy by a part of anatomy he doesn't possess, I mean, why would there be? You're not talking about *his* dick when you call him a dick, you're telling him that he *is* a dick. You are equating him with a piece of anatomy. Same thing with "cunt". You don't have to have one to be called one.

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Some feminists I've read made the point that the insult does indeed add an extra sting, so to say, when used on a man because it specifically exploits the stigmatisation of female reproductive organs as inherently shameful and unclean. If you accept that, the slur is actually based on misogyny even when used on a man. I don't think the argument is entirely baseless.

(July 6, 2016 at 8:40 am)bennyboy Wrote:

(July 6, 2016 at 7:51 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: I like the word cunt. It's no more sexist than if I called you a dick. I like that word too. But I prefer "cock".

Fine.  Call me a cock.  But I think it's unnecessarily disrespectful to use a word that has such an anti-feminist history in a thread like this one.

Ladies, am I wrong?  Has the word lost its power now through overuse or expanded usage, so that it's no longer considered a misogynist term?

Here's my reasoning: nobody that I've ever heard calls a woman a "dick."  Many call both women and men a "cunt." The fact that the c-word refers to women, and is then applied perjoratively to men, implicitly shows a greater disrespect toward women than toward men.  The same goes for calling men "bitches."

All I can say is I think you must be American? Right? I thought other countries weren't weird about the word cunt. I'm personally not offended by any swear words. People who use the word cunt seem to use it universally. I like it almost as much as wanker, I think just because I love the way it sounds in a British accent. are you serious right now with the censorship of words? Wut.