# The Most Offensive Four Letter Word? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 24, 2000, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-offensive-four-letter-word/13119 "2000-01-24T19:38:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2000, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-offensive-four-letter-word/13119/21 "2000-01-25T01:18:00Z")
I don’t find the word fuck nearly as offensive as cunt (gawd, I hate even typing it). There is one and only one way “the c word” can be used, and that’s as a vile and disgusting word intended to hurt or disparage someone. Fuck, OTOH, has so many colorful uses, not all of which are mean. [Click here](http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Lot/8835/miscellaneous/fword.wav) to hear a few examples. ( **Warning: Not edited for language. Listen at your own risk. Depends undergarments not required, but recommended.** ) * * * “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2000, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-offensive-four-letter-word/13119/22 "2000-01-25T01:27:00Z")
Well fuck! That link didn’t seem to work. Ok, let’s try it this way… \ * * * “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank ---
**Author:** ![Sycorax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@Sycorax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sycorax)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2000, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-offensive-four-letter-word/13119/23 "2000-01-25T01:52:00Z")
The “c” word is the most offensive to me. I can’t even type it. “Fuck” has become so commonplace, it doesn’t faze me anymore, plus I don’t associate it with an insult to women or to me personally. I use it myself when I get very angry. But the c word – it is always said with such anger and reduces a woman to one thing. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2000, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-offensive-four-letter-word/13119/24 "2000-01-25T17:04:00Z")
Shayna, what on earth are you doing??? Now my broswer was loading a plugin. If you used an audio thing, I sure hope you closed captioned it! 🙂 ‘fuck’ isn’t offensive to me. To fuck is very pleasureable. I used to think ‘deaf’ was quite offensive, being a post lingual late deafened adult, but I guess I can’t escape being it. I like the word ‘beep,’ though, kinda has a nice offesivity to it without knowing what it really is representing. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-offensive-four-letter-word/13119/25 "2000-01-26T04:19:00Z")
I once knew a crusty old middle-aged guy from Chicago whose favorite form of verbal punctuation was the phrase, “fuck you!”. “Hey, good morning, Frank.” “Hey, fuck you, good morning my ass, can’t you see I gotta hangover?” Or something like that. I knew it wasn’t personal, but there were several occasions when I had to stifle my natural urge to go over and pop him one after having a “fuck you!” directed at me. Where I grew up, you don’t say _fuck you_ unless you mean it, and if you mean it, well, you’re most likely fucked. Don’t mess with a state that issues licenses for concealed firearms. DHR * * * _Exits, pursued by a bear_ ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-offensive-four-letter-word/13119/26 "2000-01-26T21:44:00Z")
Shayna: That was GREAT! Laughing my fucking ass off! Jack ---
**Author:** ![Kold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/fbc32d/32.png) [@Kold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kold)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-offensive-four-letter-word/13119/27 "2000-01-26T21:51:00Z")
I’d have to say cunt… without a shadow of a doubt. Cunt is just a harsh word. I also hate ANY 4 letter racial slur… there’s absolutely no tolerance in my life for the people that use those words. * * * ants spend 20% of their day working… [The Neo-Comintern](http://members.home.net/comintern) ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-offensive-four-letter-word/13119/28 "2000-01-26T21:55:00Z")
Yep, going to go with “c\*nt” - definitely the one I find the most offensive. Racial slurs bring up a close second, followed by people calling other people “stupid” or “ugly”. * * * “If there’s anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.” ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-offensive-four-letter-word/13119/29 "2000-01-27T02:29:00Z")
There’s something about the word “fart.” I don’t know what it is. Not offensive, really. When the topic comes up, it’s hysterically funny. Other people talking about gaseousness cracks me up (Guy Stuff). I just can’t say the word. I think it’s because I don’t, well, you know. I don’t. My cat, on the other hand… * * * “The quickest way to a man’s heart is through his ribcage.” --anonymous redhead ---
**Author:** ![muffinman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@muffinman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muffinman)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-offensive-four-letter-word/13119/30 "2000-01-27T03:55:00Z")
Hehehehe… My vote goes to BUSH The George W. variety that is! ---
**Author:** ![Commander\_Fortune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Commander\_Fortune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Commander_Fortune)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-offensive-four-letter-word/13119/31 "2000-01-27T04:10:00Z")
The word “Cunt” doesn’t bother me. Sometimes, I use it to provoke other women because with few exceptions that’s the word to go with if you really want to see them lose their grip. ---
**Author:** ![Krispy\_Original](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ec9cab/32.png) [@Krispy\_Original](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krispy_Original)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-offensive-four-letter-word/13119/32 "2000-01-27T04:39:00Z")
I didn’t see any votes out here for _slit_ or _twat_. * * * Krispy Original – The original SDMB bad boy [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-offensive-four-letter-word/13119.md?page=1)