Oh dear , just what we need!
posted on 12/8/15
Speaking as I find here, but I have never seen or heard the C word used to denigrate women. In fact, I'd say 90% of the time it's used by men to abuse other men.
All swear words have connotations to the past - the B word, for example, use to be used exclusively as an insult to those who didn't have a father. The point is that these words are so freely used nowadays, and language has evolved to such an extent, that their use now is not for the same purpose as they were used in the past. Most people now accept they are just general terms of abuse which is non-specific of race.
A racial slur is a racial slur, which cannot be used in anyway other than it was originally intended to be used, i.e. to purposefully abuse people of a particular race and/or skin colour.
posted on 12/8/15
Most people now accept they are just general terms of abuse which is non-specific of race.
So abusing people is ok now as long as its not about race?
posted on 12/8/15
I'm not saying it's OK, but come on Nev, are you telling me that you've never called someone an abusive term? For me, there's a world of difference between calling someone a general, non-specific, non-racial word and calling them something that is racist.
posted on 12/8/15
In addition, a great deal of the time the 'C' word is used by women to denigrate other women as I've witnessed over the years in many of their fist fights.
posted on 12/8/15
Foxy i have a blether of Anglo Saxon expletives but i would never use that word.
posted on 12/8/15
comment by Foxello (U6985)
posted 11 minutes ago
I'm not saying it's OK, but come on Nev, are you telling me that you've never called someone an abusive term? For me, there's a world of difference between calling someone a general, non-specific, non-racial word and calling them something that is racist.
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But most abuse is specific to the person being abused, I don't see too much difference.
posted on 12/8/15
TB
But to the left racism is more important than general abuse in my experience.
posted on 12/8/15
"For me, there's a world of difference between calling someone a general, non-specific, non-racial word and calling them something that is racist."
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Mostly I agree, but personally I tend to group the C bomb in with these, at least in terms of what I'm comfortable using or otherwise. I hate the word because of its objectifying and aggressive nature toward the female body, somehow far more than the T word. In that way I see it as a similar level of taboo to the strong racial slurs that we all know.
That said, I know plenty of otherwise decent people who wouldn't think twice about using it, so what do I know.
posted on 13/8/15
comment by downsouf (U4095)
posted 1 day, 1 hour ago
In addition, a great deal of the time the 'C' word is used by women to denigrate other women as I've witnessed over the years in many of their fist fights.
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I've lived a sheltered life!
posted on 13/8/15
comment by BlackStarr (U12353)
When I was a kid you couldn't say the word half cast or coloured, yet 30 years earlier, you could drive down the road and see the N word on a party political billboard.
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Black Starr, I've enjoyed reading your comments in this thread, and today, we can't write the word 'black' without using a capital letter. Blacks (black Africans and Afro-Caribbeans) want a capital letter to describe their colour, yet they make up less than half of this country's ethnic minorities. We don't say Coloured, so why should we say Black? I'm not White, I'm white.
But are you 100% sure billboards in years past used the actual N word?