the c-word--its origins and meanings
with the comments about the woman that donnie douche called the c-word, I thought it was time, again, to refresh our memories about the origins and meanings of this powerful word--as well as the word vagina.
I have no problem with the c-word if it is used against me, personally, because I know the origin of the word. and it confuses the hell out of the people who use it to try to upset me that it does not.
C is for Cunt
While the world is only just coming to terms with saying the word vagina out loud, cunt remains a term that takes people’s breath away as they cringe at the sheer power it contains. Pushed underground, banished from conventional language, cunt has long since been appropriated by patriarchs and misogynists and used as an utterance that disgusts or insults in the worst possible way. But cunt has not always been the most taboo word around. IT WAS ORIGINALLY A TERM USED TO REVERE THE WISDOM OF WOMEN, IN PARTICULAR, THE WISDOM OF HER GENITALS. IN PRE-AGRARIAN DAYS, CUNTS WERE TACITLY CELEBRATED AS PURVEYORS OF PLEASURE AND KNOWLEDGE. (EMPHASIS MINE)
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When we look to the etymology of the word cunt, it has a much more celebratory and empowering origin than vagina. Etymologist Eric Partridge, writes in his book A Charm of Words that the the prefix “cu” is an expression of “quintessential femininity,” confirming “cunt” as truly a woman’s term. Tony Thorne, in his Dictionary of Contemporary Slang writes; “The synonymy between ‘cu’ and femininity was in place even before the development of written language: In the unwritten prehistoric Indo-European languages ‘cu’ or ‘koo’ was a word base expressing ‘feminine’, ‘fecund’ and associated notions.” Matthew Hunt, who draws from the above writers in his offerings on the history of cunt, says that the Proto-Indo-European “cu” is also cognate with other feminine/vaginal terms, such as the Hebrew “cus;” the Arabic “cush,” “kush,” and “khunt;” the Nostratic “kuni” (woman); and the Irish “cuint” (cunt). He goes on to say that the word cunt is inherent in many goddess’s names such as the Indian goddess Kunt and the energy force known as Kundalini.
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Furthermore, while the word vagina implies a singular orifice for organ, cunt speaks of the textured nature of female genitals and includes the vulva, clitoris, labia and canal. Cunt speaks of the multidimensionality of women’s sexual pleasure–not just the sheath in which a man can thrust his erection. It denotes a sexuality that is rooted in pleasure and orgasm, not one denied orgasm by patriarchal doctrine.
I believe that the word cunt has to be dug up and given a good historical dusting so that the beauty, force and power of the word is reinstated into the feminine discourse. When women finally reclaim and speak this word, its full potential will be released and women will repossess their collective cunt-power and rise up against misogyny and patriarchy with the absolute intent of ending it.
http://msmagazine.com/blog/2012/11/27/c-is-for-cunt/
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