Oh and included in that apology should also be an apology for the dedication from "Lurking Liam" at the Bronze prom. Say my name, my ass.

ETA: Oh Plei, I use that word all the time. So does Allyson. We often raise eyebrows.

I'm that way, too, Plei. Not about that word, but about others. I genuinely forget that other people aren't as immune to such words as I am.

Plei, i interviewed the writer for Slayer Slang for a total of EIGHT hours.

We talked about "cunt" and "fuck" and other such words, and he's in agreement that they are just that, words.

But "cunt" was a term for "diseased prositute" at one point, and the lingering connotation of absolute filth, genital rot, etc, permeates the word, still.

That's insanely cool about the interview.

It's a word that used to sting me. Now? It's lost its power, and that makes me clamhappy.

We talked about "cunt" and "fuck" and other such words, and he's in agreement that they are just that, words.

My perception is that this is an Americanism. In Australia the word is bad, but it's not the last word in bad words. My father would use it, for instance, in the car, but he'd think twice about "fuck", dependent upon the other passengers.

I think fuck has gone through a deliberate desensitisation process that has skipped other words, such as cunt, completely.

(edited for a third attempt at desensitisation)

The Vagina Monologues includes a pretty funny part about reclaiming the word "cunt".

Julie, he did mention that in the UK, not such a big deal, except that cunt is still a word for vagina, and it's still meant to be offensive, ergo, it's sexist.

I think I started to love the word after seeing that Bette Midler clip. She was speaking before some women's organization and she talked about how strong women get treated in Hollywood. It was something like, "And then they started calling me that word. You know what word I'm talking about, ladies. It starts with 'c' and it ends with 't' and it's cunt."

It's a very satisfying word. Feels good in the mouth...BYOPunchline.

I realized the other day that reams of fanfic have made cunt transparent to me.

It's no longer offensive. I need to remember that this is just me, and that many people are still shocked by it.

wrod. I'd embraced it (...er) after watching The Vagina Monologues, but reading fanfic has totally shifted my appropriateness-o-meter. (See also: "Shoot him in the cock! Shoot him in the fucking cock!" being yelled fervently at Jack Bauer on Season 1 of 24. Visualise the way my mother's eyebrow silently arched.)

...But I refuse to get behind warning her for not feeling the way you, Katie, Fay, Nutty want her to feel.

...is anyone else under the impression that I have already had anything to do with the Allyson thing?I'm waving the flag of Chill and Doblerize, but please note that my none of my posts concerned whether Allyson should feel good, feel bad, say sorry, hop on one leg or whistle the national anthem. The whole explosion happened after I'd gone to bed.

edited because of needless length of emotive quotation. And because saying 'I'm not bringing X up' when I'm referencing it as quickly as possible is clearly pants.

I think Allyson should sing Bye Bye Bye. And FPA.