Tuesday (The Lincoln Project)

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1. There is no word I hate more.

Not sure when I first remember hearing it. It was jolting, it was so ugly and so crude. There was a movie with Jodie Foster and Denzel Washington and Foster is called the C-word by someone she is doing a "fix" for, I remember how totally unprepared I was, and how she didn't flinch. Not even a raised eyebrow. Like "I've been called worse". What's worse?

I think I associate the word with rape. A complete violation of a woman and her vagina and the sentiment of the man who does it. Worse still, the image of penetrating a woman with a knife comes to mind.

I really hate that word.