# How is "Gut feeling" offensive?

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**Created:** [August 11, 2009, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-gut-feeling-offensive/506090 "2009-08-11T18:35:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 13, 2009, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-gut-feeling-offensive/506090/21 "2009-08-13T01:06:07Z")

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> [@billfish678](#):
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> I had a “black” elementary teacher back in the day that found “belly” to be an extremely offensive word. To the point that I think only the N word could have bothered her more.
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> What made it even odder, is that besides that, she didnt come off as one of those obsessively proper little old ladies from the south.
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> But belly really pushed some button of hers!

I remember reading an English translation of The Story Of O in which the word “belly” was used as a euphemism for vagina. It was…terribly confusing.  
Also when I read the original question, the first thing that came to mind was the Ramona book where she gets upset and announces to her parents and older sister that she’s going to say a bad word. She then yells something to the effect of “GUTS GUTS GUTS” at the top of her lungs and is rather annoyed when she realizes everyone is trying to not laugh at her.  
I read alot of stuff.

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