This is where the party ends

[muckefuck]

Lovely party tonight, but of course it couldn't be without one or two reminders why I don't go out more often. I met a number of sweet-, attractive-, and intelligent-seeming men, but then a couple of them just had to run their mouths off until they erased that impression. Two of them fell into a discussion of the horrors of the South Side, concluding with the offhand remark, "That's why we live here, because they live there." Nice. Near the end of the evening, someone whose company I'd been very much enjoying until that point referred to a female politician as a "cunt". When I pointed out how unfair that was, he replied, "She's a woman, so she's a cunt." Have a nice life, dickhead.

Comments

[wwidsith.livejournal.com]

It's weird but in the UK "cunt" is almost exclusively used for men. So I would have been confused as well as outraged.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

I think that helps explain why it's a milder insult there. It was a word I never heard growing up because it was so powerful, it was the thermonuclear device of profanity.

[wwidsith.livejournal.com]

Oh god, here too. There's no going back from that one. One of the things I like about English is that we have these nuclear options....I don't think there is any word in French or Spanish that has comparable effect, in fact there isn't much in French that you couldn't use at a dinner party..

[nibadi.livejournal.com]

was bedeutet cunt?

In meinem dictionary aus den 70 er Jahren steht:

vagina
female pudenda (keine Ahnung was pudenda ist.)
woman or girl regarded as a sexual object.
despicable person

ist es ein gängiger Ausdruck? Ich habe es noch nie gehört.

[jrittenhouse.livejournal.com]

Eine Kombination der letzten zwei Definitionen. Es ist nicht ein üblicher Ausdruck. Es ist eine sehr starke Beleidigung.

[nibadi.livejournal.com]

Thank you for teaching me.