It’s probably because I haven’t finished my coffee yet, but I was unable to parse this correctly for the longest time.
“What mother act?” “Which bits out?”
:smack:
I remember watching the Brit import “Are You Being Served,” in which one of the sales clerks, a middle-aged woman, was always talking about “my pussy.” The context was that she was innocently talking about things her cat did, but “the boys” were always giggling about the double meaning of her comments. I took this to mean that Brits, too, refer to women’s genitals as pussy.
I’ll wager a guess that, like Australians, Brits know about the American use of the word pussy to mean vagina, and that this was probably the basis of the joke.
Growing up in Australia, i knew that pussy was used in this way, but no-one i know in Australia ever made a habit of this usage. Similarly, when i lived in England, i never heard anyone refer to a vagina as a pussy.
I fully accept that my experience might not be universal, and that there could well be plenty of people in both countries that use the term in that way; i just haven’t heard them. To me, pussy=vagina has always been a very North American usage.
As one of jjimm’s friends once said about his broken car, “Cunt!. The cunting cunt is cunted”
I personally value the impact of “cunt.” It’s like “bitch” squared (maybe even cubed). You save it for those instances for which your M1 rifle can’t do the jon . . . time to break out the MG42.
If a woman is standing upright without panties, you can see her pussy from the front but not her cunt.
If a woman is naked on her knees and bowing down in Islamic prayer fashion, you can see her cunt from behind but not her pussy.
I think when we call men pussies, it is derived from the concept that they’ve been pussy whipped.
I disagree. I think that when men are called pussies, it is implying that they have a pussy instead of a penis. It takes away their masculinity.
I concur . It’s a lack of the matched set .
I just has to come back to say…well, where do I start? I don’t think pussy is gender neutral. I don’t see woman getting called pussy that much (as an insult, as opposed to just condesending to them). Men get called that as a reflection of their less than masculine attributes, being too female, which of course is inferior. Which I find offensive.
Cunt on the other hand, is either a more advanced term for bitch. An upitty woman. Which is their problem if they have a problem with that. Or a sexual receptacle, which can be kind of turn on coming from someone you want to have sex with.
So I’d still rather be an upitty cunt.
I’d just like to say that around me, “bitch” will get you laughed with, glared at or high-fived, depending.
“Cunt” will get you punched. Hard.
Hmm. I always assumed that “pussy” came from the feline definition, as in “fraidy-cat.” But now that I think about it, calling someone a “pussy” is almost always used against males.
Does anyone know the true etymology of the word?
Hmmm… has anyone asked Cunctator about this? 
See post #40, above.
That’s your own personal baggage. Generally speaking, it isn’t used to mean inferior, but rather physically weak and/or unwilling to risk personal injury for no good reason. While you might rush to take offense at the cowardly subtext of the latter, a reasoned analysis would show that what men label cowardly is often the same thing women label as smart or prudent.
Conversely, women call each other sluts. Picture if instead of “slut” the term used were “cock.” Do you think men would find this offensive, since being labeled a “cock” would be a reflection of their less than feminine attributes, being too male, which of course is inferior?
No, because that would be silly. It would be manufacturing offense out of nothing. And while I have no doubt that some men toss around the word slut, I think there are women out there who are just as free tossing around the word pussy or its equivalents.
So there’s the answer to the age-old dilemma of how unfair it is that men aren’t labeled sluts. Women aren’t labeled pussies, so it evens out. Both are equally disparaging to one sex while completely toothless against the other.