The C Word

should be TerriBull in bold but I mispelt it!

Teetime I saw the Vagina Monologues several years ago.....I found myself laughing out loud one minute, and sobbing the next!

For those who misunderstood, who would use the word Christmas to allude to their "Lady garden"? But to get back to the topic, I agree that it shouldn't be used as the worst swear word but it has such a satisfying hard and explosive sound, I sometimes can't resist.

Somebody once told me there used to be C**t Street in London where all the prostitutes hung out! Has anyone else heard that? I know c**t is a very old fashioned word but I still hate it and find it much more offensive than the F word.

Me again! Just been looking on Google, etc - yes, there was a street called Gropec**t Lane - evidentially several towns had such named streets in the Middle Ages. Chaucer used the c word very often! What made me laugh was a sign for “Tickle Cock Bridge” - the mind boggles! This post will probably get censored.

It's not a word I would use , but as a historian there is another one that starts with a c that I cant bear
Swearing of any sort wasn't done in my family, although in private I can swear with the best of them

Gagajo said
easily offended (hence the Christmas references)
so I was trying (for once!) to avoid causing offense.

I always take the view that if any one wants to take offence they will..... I never give it... it is for the recipient to take it...

now should that be offence or offense? come on, this is an invented human language, we put letters and words and make sounds,,, all invented.... what could possibly be offensive about any word? it is the intention behind it..

my dh hates "stupid" come on.... see what I mean?
mind you, I do cringe at the f word, and now you have all taught me the c word! lol next?

There’s nothing wrong with the word per se as DHLawrence uses it to good effect in Lady C as have other writers. It’s when it’s used as an insult that it sounds so ugly and it is strange that words for genitals are used as insults (male and female)as are words for copulation but I guess it originates from times past when the sex act and it’s associated parts were considered to be dirty/ wrong etc etc

Mama, my mother used to use the same phrase when either of my sisters were off for an evening with one or other of their friends. I used to say the same to my GD, who we brought up and received the response “but grandad in your day is was more risky" accompanied with a cheeky smile and giggle.

Ps the C word that fills me with dread is the one that ends in ‘mas’ ?

I can't stand hearing the word. Usually used with such vehemence towards a person, it's horrible. Lady garden, bush, words I don't use but not quite so offended as with the 'c' word.

'Lady Garden' - ha ha ha ha ha. I thought the daftest euphemism I'd ever heard was years ago from my daughter's Geordie nursery teacher - she called it her 'fairy'. I pointed out that my daughter thought you found fairies at the bottom of the garden. Oh the room for confusion.
Maybe - following this thread - I'll call my FANNY (it is a FANNY so stop FANNYING AROUND) my 'Christmas' from now on.
He he he he ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Oh great.
We have a word other than medical for the female lower bit
Any one ideas for the male lower bits

I really don’t like the C word, mainly because it’s an insult, but means a woman’s genitals. Why should a woman’s genitals be considered negative? What grates on me more though, is the modern tendency to refer to the Vulva as the Vagina!

The C word is vile and makes me feel sick if I hear anyone say it.

The C word is only ever used derisively or aggressively, and given that the C is part of the female anatomy that is often violated by men I would have thought that all women, feminists or not, would have been offended at its more widespread use in general language. I'm a feminist through and through and frankly I can't abide other self-proclaimed feminists who use this word in public simply to shock and give the impression they can and want to, compete with men - we have vaginas and when we use that word there's no hostile connotation, but to call someone a C implies the strong belief that the vagina is a worthless place and one that others have the right to denigrate. We would we as women want to downgrade ourselves by assuming our very valuable genitals can be used in general language in such an insulting way? And Chaucer used it - so what? Women were burnt at the stake then for being witches!

Not a bit bothered by it.
Had to help my daughter practice use it for a play she was in a few years ago ? we said out loud around the house in the car and wherever we could until we were desensitized. It was a good play she played her part well with no stumbling over the word!

Following on from the F word thread, I thought I'd initiate a discussion about the C word

Why?

I intensely dislike 'hard' swearing, including the c & f words and do regard them as beyond the pale.

Incidentally, re 'beyond the pale', I actually live ON the Pale'?. You may know that the 'Pale' was an area in the east of Ireland governed by England in the middle ages, surrounded by the PaleDitch to separate it from the rest of the country. I live on the line of the Pale Ditch. It's where the phrase 'beyond the pale' comes from?.

Actually, I don't find c**t offensive in the sense of being shocked by it, probably because no-one I knew ever used it when I was growing up, and by the time I did hear it, I just thought "How odd"

That particular area of the female body was only referred to as "between the legs" when I was a child, even "crotch" was regarded as vaguely indecent.

This being said, I would love a mass return to the standards of my childhood with regards to what words can be said or written for public consumption.

But actually, I would like a "nice" word for the thing. To me "vagina" is a word I would only use when consulting a doctor, and the same goes for "vulva".

I may have been naive, but if anyone had told me when I was sixteen to keep my hand on my halfpenny I would have that they were warning me to be careful I didn't have my purse stolen.

I have long thought the time has come to reclaim c* as a beautiful word instead of a bad one. It was used for centuries in a perfectly normal way (though always slightly rude, even back then). If you read Shakespeare's Troilus & Cressida there is an incident where the word 'quaint' is used quite naughtily as that is also a derivation. I do object strongly to a good old Anglo Saxon word for our most beautiful body parts being used as an insult.

.. Having said that, I also hate euphemisms. And don't get me started on the prissy sorts who exclaim, "Oh sugar." as if they're too prim to say shit!

Some weeks ago I had to ask whether 'lady garden' meant the same as 'front bottom' I was assured by more knowledgeable posters that it does, I have reached the grand old age of 83 and had never heard the expression. Interestingly Google both ??.......

Mamaa my mum used to say ‘Don’t come home with your knickers torn and sixpence in your hand”. I used to repeat it to my daughter and never realised what it was insinuating!!! ?

Interesting post, and have you noticed that the worst swear words are derogatory to women. The c word itself, bitch, slag and so on. There are very few, if any, equivalent male versions. Did you know that the word 'squaw' also means 'c...'? No respect.