karisue answered Sunday December 10 2006, 1:12 pm: in my opinion, 'pussy' isn't much of a better word. Next time asking a question, use formal english, such as 'Vagina.'
Some women take offense to the word cunt, because it's basically describing your vagina as gross or nasty, something someone wouldn't want to go near. That is why you hear people call eachother cunts.
In this society, we were raised to not use certain words.
So when you are asking why cunt is a bad word to call your vagina, you are basically asking why ass is a bad word to call your butt. [ karisue's advice column | Ask karisue A Question ]
Razhie answered Sunday December 10 2006, 12:54 pm: Because our society says it is.
Cunt is one of the few words you can truly not say or print in the North America. In New Zealand, Australia and Scotland, calling someone a cunt is the same as calling them 'dude', but in North America is an incerible vulgur word.
Some femisnits have tried to reclaim the word, the same way some black people have tried to reclaim the n word and homosexuals have managed to make the word 'queer' quite positive. But by in large cunt is still offensive to most people round here. Not so much as a reference to female genitalia, depending on your community and friends you might be able to get away with that. Calling someone a cunt however, is a very serious offense.
Attention: NOTHING on this site may be reproduced in any fashion whatsoever without explicit consent (in writing) of the owner of said material, unless otherwise stated on the page where the content originated. Search engines are free to index and cache our content. Users who post their account names or personal information in their questions have no expectation of privacy beyond that point for anything they disclose. Questions are otherwise considered anonymous to the general public.