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Some of you grinned when you read the title, thinking that it indicated a juicy tirade against someone in particular. Others of you, just based on the heading, have gasped, and uttered “Oh God” or some other expression of exasperation. And a small minority will never even get to this sentence because the word is just so upsetting to them.
My question is how does a word elicit such a response? I’ve heard the word spoken in English drag screams and draw punches from non-violent women. The word seems to have power on an international scale, as even partway around the world I’ve heard the word’s Swedish translation elicit gasps from a crowded bar.
But why? According to Dictionary.com, the primary definition of cunt is “The female genital organs,” which seems rather scientific and benign, but as Americans, we have been trained that it carries an enormous negative weight with women. But, why?
Control.
If you doubt that the word is simply a method of virtually Pavlovian control for women, then there should be a corresponding word that would have an equally negative impact on a man. There is no single word that a woman can use to regularly and successfully destabilize a man in this method, because there isn’t one word that carries that kind of weight on the male psyche. Not one.
That’s because the word “cunt” is a magic Pavlovian button devised for men, by men, to control women. And it’s idiotic in its simplicity. Merely saying the word evokes a trained negative response, and creates a power vacuum, destabilizing the woman and giving the man the upper hand. By training, no woman wants to even hear the word, nevermind hear it in a way in which the word could describe her.
Not only she has always been taught that this word is the most revolting in the world, but the irony of this power imbalance lies in the underlying secondary definition of the word as a reference her own sexual organs. The logical deduction of the response is that the woman’s sexual organs are the most disgusting things that she knows of. And if your genitals and method of reproduction are vile and repulsive, you have undermined a small part of your persona, and thus, created an accepted and intrinsic undercurrent of inferiority.
It’s a power word built for control, but the only way for a simple word to gain power, is if it is given that power by individuals. And it’s ironic that the proponents of their own impotence are the women themselves.
Be a cunt. Or a tree. Or a mugglybobblydoo. Make words weightless, so that you may soar.
Why?
Sorry, ladies, but I’ve been reading a People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn, and I’m up to the womens’ suffrage movement. The major and minor methods control women, rather than lift them up really tend to really bother me. So, I write what I feel. Plus, I may inadvertently attract a lot of misguided people searching for porn with all my filthy language.
New GIT
Tonight, I actually helped someone explore their PC and fix a major problem, delivering instructions solely via IM. Given the fact that this women is not technical by trade, I was proud of her for not only taking the initiative to fix the PC herself, but for being patient and executing my crappy IM instructions perfectly. This is usually the first step to becoming a geek, and thus, my friend has earned the title of Geek-In-Training (GIT). Be proud. Unbeknownst to her, any cool that she had is probably writing its swan song as I write. The road to geek is littered with jettisoned cool.