Talk about a stretch Jocelynne has taken a subject exclusively relating to men's language of the playing field and translated that to women hatred and misogyny. Has it occurred to you that this has nothing to do with women or the hatred of women. Have you considered the use of the word "pxxxx" the equivalent male anatomy of the women's "cxxx" and used quite openly by both men and women in a derogatory sense at men? One isn't subject to a diatribe of hysteria and an affirmation of the hatred of men by women because of its use.

I suggest that you concentrate your mind on the real substantial issues facing women today in attaining true equality and equal pay and opportunities with man. Your article belittles the very serious discrepancies that still exist between man and woman both on the social level (single woman parentage) and in the business world lack of opportunity and leave mental masturbation to those who have nothing better to do with their time.

I'm an agnostic freethinker. As such I completely disagree with the notion of banning words. Swearing is commonplace and all the precious little children being protected from these conjugations of sound bytes will grow up to become swearers anyway. Its like the taboo against nakedness. We have long forgotten why it was ever banned in the first place. Swearing should be allowed everywhere including shopping centres and law courts. It would then quickly lose it value as an emphatic shocking insult and become a normal part of everyday language. It practically already is. Its just that the law is as archaic as the senile judges and magistrates administering it.

I'm confused, is Ms Scutt trying to say that calling someone "Black" is an insult ?
In this context "Black" is a class of person just like "Woman" or "Blind".

Ahhhhhh. That was riveting.

I'm more concerned about the spider hatred spewed forth when humans use the term Rock Spider.

One of the best lines in any movie is Shaun of the Dead,

'Which one of you cuuunts wants a beer'.

'its use as a swear word when used by males these days seems largely devoid of this connotation.'

Amen.

Me, Trev, 'Shoulder to Shoulder'!

It's an interesting social phenomena in itself this world the acedemic feminist lives in full of nails and hammers. I really wonder why the plainly obvious fallacy, the outdated-ness of all these social theories and conventional acedemic feminist thought seems immune from revision or any sort of sanity check.

I mean Jocelynne don't you ever sit back an go, "wow, that's a nice theory, love it, it would support my world view wonderfully, but, objectively, does it even ring true at all?"

"Me, Trev, 'Shoulder to Shoulder'!"

Amen (funny) indeed. Our concern is not paternalism, it's just good manners… Houellebecq manning the barricades, me barricading the men.

Society has got to reduce the consequences of 'stereotype threat' and if that means standing up against outdated concepts of the vagina and what it represents in order to help protect it from allcomers then count us in.

"Stereotype threat describes the experience of “being at risk of confirming, as self-characteristic, a negative stereotype of one’s group” (Steel & Aronson, 1995). This social-psychological phenomenon has been shown to significantly decrease the performance of persons who belong to negatively stereotyped groups.

Stereotype threat is most vividly observed in individuals who identify strongly with the negatively stereotyped social group, who identify with the intellectual domain in which they are being tested and who expect discrimination – perhaps due to past experiences in their personal lives (Steele, Spencer & Aronson, 2002)."

Remember STDs – Stereotype Threat Damages.

I love the word "cuunt" (and I'm not indifferent to what it signifies, at least viscerally) and though it's a common idiom among dirty-mouthed little boys and bloke-speak, that doesn't signify and I hope it otherwise remains a taboo-word. The great thing about cuunt, not as an expletive, is it has such power; I've heard it used (by women) to great effect in poetry, for instance, and when used appropriately in polite conversation the effect is arresting! The challenge is coming up with a context in which to couch the word in its full artistic glory. Metaphor would seem to be the easiest device, while metonym only seems applicable to the ladies? In fact I've never heard a woman called a cuunt. Though I, and many men I suspect, have commonly been called "c0ck"--though never by a woman.
I have on many occasions been urgently informed "Ooh, I want your c0ck inside me", on a few occasions with, "inside my cuunt"! I was shocked, and delighted.
Should I object to being metonymically called "c0ck", or to the word being used insensitively during sex? Is that misandry? And what about "c0ckhead" and "d1ckhead"? In my experience invariably applied to men and boys and never girls--though I've often heard girls use the epithet. Is that sexism, misandry?

I agree racial taunts have no place on the sporting field, but to me it was the word black that was offensive and not the word cuunt. I'm only disgusted that the word is used so lightly. It should only be used on rare and special occasions, so I'll now go back to saying "the C word".

P.S goodness me, even "d1ckhead" is deemed a profanity, a good old Aussie idiom.