# The cu\*t word **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 7, 2025, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cu-t-word/1016729 "2025-04-07T08:57:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cu-t-word/1016729/81 "2025-04-08T03:58:29Z")
> [@natureboy](#): > > To convince people that maybe they need to relax their ‘standards’ a bit and let conversations happen, even if it might offend their senses and sensibilities. Which standards are we to abandon exactly? Surely, the word in contention in this thread is not the only standard you have a problem with, correct? ---
**Author:** ![natureboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@natureboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/natureboy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cu-t-word/1016729/82 "2025-04-08T04:02:17Z")
Keep debating which words we can and can’t use to have conversations while everyone else has conversations with meaning. I don’t expect anyone here to agree. I don’t care. (I care enough to express my opinion, though). ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cu-t-word/1016729/83 "2025-04-08T04:05:38Z")
> [@natureboy](#): > > while everyone else has conversations with meaning. You have a point. I have thought while reading various threads that the conversation simply has no meaning because no one has used the word cunt, it’s a pity. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cu-t-word/1016729/84 "2025-04-08T04:05:39Z")
> [@natureboy](#): > > Keep debating which words we can and can’t use to have conversations while everyone else has conversations with meaning. Feel free to share any meaningful conversation you saw online that is using the word cu\*t. I’m sure some of us would be interested in seeing how it’s done right. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cu-t-word/1016729/85 "2025-04-08T04:11:15Z")
Thank you for the clarification. ---
**Author:** ![natureboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@natureboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/natureboy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cu-t-word/1016729/86 "2025-04-08T04:13:45Z")
You wouldn’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cu-t-word/1016729/87 "2025-04-08T04:14:28Z")
I never was much of a fan of “If you can’t ban everything, then you can’t ban anything.” ---
**Author:** ![natureboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@natureboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/natureboy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cu-t-word/1016729/88 "2025-04-08T04:16:53Z")
Objection/opinion noted. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cu-t-word/1016729/89 "2025-04-08T04:19:10Z")
> [@natureboy](#): > > I hear both men and women use terms like bitch, slut, whore, cock, dick, prick, or whatever, but for whatever reason, c\*nt is off limits. > > It’s silly. Obviously, nobody would use any of the above in polite conversation, but when we’re having impolite conversation, why is one of these any worse than the others? As someone else has said, > [@natureboy](#): > > You wouldn’t get it. It isn’t obvious that using gendered slurs as non-gendered slurs in no way removes the gendered baggage they bring along with them? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cu-t-word/1016729/90 "2025-04-08T04:24:15Z")
I think trying to hold everyone to their own individual standards, instead of a general set of standards ,would cause most, if not all ,of the mods to quit. ---
**Author:** ![natureboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@natureboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/natureboy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cu-t-word/1016729/91 "2025-04-08T04:24:15Z")
Wondering what the actual quality of discussion here is like, in terms of discussing race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cu-t-word/1016729/92 "2025-04-08T04:26:30Z")
So, your “while everyone else has conversations with meaning” is not based on actual knowledge of the conversations going on here? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cu-t-word/1016729/93 "2025-04-08T04:29:28Z")
Read some old threads. They get really nasty. We’ve grown away from that. Because, we’re adults. Not teenaged boys. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cu-t-word/1016729/94 "2025-04-08T04:34:53Z")
Unfortunately those are the “good old days” to far too many posters. ---
**Author:** ![natureboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@natureboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/natureboy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cu-t-word/1016729/95 "2025-04-08T04:38:11Z")
I mean we could worry less about political correctness and discuss how like the top 10% control 50% spending/investment in this country. That’s actually where most voters and non-voters (who aren’t represented here) are feeling. I am guessing most posters here are closer to the 10% than the rest. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cu-t-word/1016729/96 "2025-04-08T04:40:56Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Read some old threads. They get really nasty. Yes, and it had nothing to do with the word cunt or any other slur as I noted at the time, > [@Revisiting the BBQ Pit- Boon or Bane?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revisiting-the-bbq-pit-boon-or-bane/944413/112): > > Yeah, I have a very clear recollection of a post the beloved Scylla made just before cuntflap happened where he tore Poster Not Named’s entire life apart . . . but since he didn’t call her a cunt of tell her to go fuck herself it, at least on its face, was perfectly fine under Ed’s ‘Snuggly Puppy’ Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cu-t-word/1016729/97 "2025-04-08T06:25:07Z")
This. Patriarchy is a _thing_ and having a dick is cool, and often being a dick is considered cool by some. Being/having women’s parts is never cool. It’s weak, inferior, smelly etc. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cu-t-word/1016729/98 "2025-04-08T06:38:18Z")
I don’t like any of it. I won’t claim I don’t ever use some of those words, but I don’t make it a habit. A couple of them I don’t use at all. I really don’t consider myself overly sensitive. But its always easy to call other people sensitive when it’s not your ox being gored. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cu-t-word/1016729/99 "2025-04-08T06:41:30Z")
Oooo, how about, “shrill?” ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cu-t-word/1016729/100 "2025-04-08T06:43:33Z")
I don’t remember if I’ve seen that particular term modded, but that is a term that is often used in a misogynistic way. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cu-t-word/1016729.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cu-t-word/1016729.md?page=6)