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JohnnyRingo

(18,581 posts)
2. Why can't I call women the "C word"?
Tue Sep 3, 2013, 10:31 AM
Sep 2013

After all, Lisa Lampanelli uses it on every album she records, so that must mean all women call each other that name. That is the same reason racists use to justify their desire to make the word nigger a part of their regular radio broadcasts and daily discussion.

The people who seek approval don't want this social permission in a quest for equality, they just can't think of a word that better describes their abject hatred for an entire race. Go call Ann Coulter a cunt to her face and see if she sits politely on her hands.

Sure Lampanelli is shock humor, and African Americans sometimes refer to each other as niggas, but no white person has ever used that word in a complimentary fashion, and never will. Just like cunt, it's meant to demean and abase, nothing more. Such language is a backhand to the face or a whip across the back, depending on who wields it.

Besides, everyone has the right to use any words they want, but no one can cry foul when society strikes back. Limbaugh can call Obama a nigga and Hillary a cunt on the radio, we all know he wants to, but he knows deep down it would end his career.

really need to get rid of the entire term PatrynXX Sep 2013 #1
Why can't I call women the "C word"? JohnnyRingo Sep 2013 #2
Yep. Iggo Sep 2013 #3
+1000 Tom Ripley Sep 2013 #11
You can use it. I don't care and I'm a woman. I think giving these words ALL THIS POWER valerief Sep 2013 #4
I disagree that using it as he describes would reduce the power, because we didn't give the words spooky3 Sep 2013 #7
We ARE the culture. nt valerief Sep 2013 #9
One individual at a time is not the culture. spooky3 Sep 2013 #22
I'm not going to argue that point with you... JohnnyRingo Sep 2013 #10
We give the words that power. We can take it away. I choose to take it away. valerief Sep 2013 #12
So why are you arguing that people should spooky3 Sep 2013 #23
Stop making words magic is a better long-term solution. nt valerief Sep 2013 #24
I agree mpcamb Sep 2013 #25
Whoa! I thought I was a lone voice in the wilderness on this issue! Thanks. valerief Sep 2013 #26
"no white person has ever used that word in a complimentary fashion, and never will" bunnies Sep 2013 #16
I always wonder why JustAnotherGen Sep 2013 #5
another way of saying that a free pass depends on context Supersedeas Sep 2013 #32
It's become black or white JustAnotherGen Sep 2013 #33
A speaker's race does not excuse a supervisor lecturing cthulu2016 Sep 2013 #6
Clearly and succinctly put! markpkessinger Sep 2013 #18
I've always heaven05 Sep 2013 #8
We've had exactly the same problem with "Queer" dickthegrouch Sep 2013 #13
If Mr. Carmona has a Masters degree enlightenment Sep 2013 #14
A single word should not have power. Strings of words--words in context-- valerief Sep 2013 #15
True enough. enlightenment Sep 2013 #17
Then why is the discussion about a single word that than the string of words? valerief Sep 2013 #19
Because the words around that single word enlightenment Sep 2013 #29
I'm not talking about this incident. I'm talking about the right wing tactic of valerief Sep 2013 #30
Well, then, we were enlightenment Sep 2013 #31
The N-Word DOES have a context that give it both meaning and power. . . markpkessinger Sep 2013 #20
It surely does. To pretend otherwise is absurd, and obnoxious. Probably deeply ignorant, as well. Judi Lynn Sep 2013 #21
hope she takes him to the cleaners Niceguy1 Sep 2013 #27
I have been lectured on DU Manifestor_of_Light Sep 2013 #28
Fair point JustAnotherGen Sep 2013 #34
What about "Saltine-American"??????? Manifestor_of_Light Sep 2013 #36
I tried in vain to curtail the use of that word when I was teaching middle school marshall Sep 2013 #35
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