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In reply to the discussion: The Rude Pundit ought to just steer clear of sexist/homophobic [View all]Hestia
(3,818 posts)over a word. Actually, in a thread drift, women should stand up and reclaim the word - it was a title of the Great Mother Goddess and men used her title of greatness and reduced to mere sex in order to take over religious thought. In fact all the words that are supposedly misogynistic were once titles of the Goddess - all of them - B, W, C - and women need to quit cowering and reclaim the words. Quit letting men define what offends us and personally, as a woman, I take great offense when a woman tells me that I should be offended because she is offended. Not here.
Call me the c word all you want (don't want to get alerted on though I may already have been) and it will not offend me at all, in fact, I may thank you for equating me with the Great Mother Goddess.