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The C Word

it’s said by women to women that the most offensive word (in the english language) they can be called is the C word--- this word cannot be uttered by men around women, it’s said by women to men, it’s said by men to men when conversing about the women who told them amidst other women or alone without other women present. all words stumble round its usage like a toddler meandering across a fresh patch of ice in slippers made of butter. as cyanide in your favorite drink or perhaps something of a barbed wire jockstrap you know better than to tread that water, best to swim instead of sink--- but men will call each other this word like its nobody’s business especially in england and it’s laughable how quickly its forgotten that women still frequent these areas said to be inhabited only by those with penises--- it is still a word isn’t it? one of many, whose disgustingness has brought violence with them for hundreds if not thousands of years. so will this word be picked up by women who feel its usage to be violent, misogynistic & vile, only then subsequently appropriating it for their own giving it new meaning?

Copyright © | Year Posted 2011




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Date: 9/20/2011 7:28:00 AM
The 'C' word was first writ in 1503 by Scots poet Wm Dunbar when he called his friend, Kennedy, 'c...bitten.' He meant he had a sexually transmitted disease. He also, first put our 'F' word in print. We owe him so much. Love your poem. It's fun to explore the taboos.
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