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.

I am drawing that pic of JC, and I WILL detail the pirate outfit.

The first time I saw the word "cunt" was in Delores Claiborne, and I thought it meant pretty much the same thing as "bitch." It got a lot of raised eyebrows when I used it in a family game of Scrabble.

I gotta tell ya. Having a linguist on Speed Dial is ridiculously handy.