Letters to the Editor
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To AKA Smith
"This is why that word can hurt."
I am well aware that the word cunt can hurt, but I don't want the word banned, and rather I would like to reclaim it.
Can a woman take pride in being called a cunt? I don't know? But I would like to think that it is possible.
You and I are not disagreeing on anything, except the implication associated with the word motherfucker (you should use that word more often, it's a good one).
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contact information
I did a "who is" search for the operator of the "citizens united not timid" web site. Not surprisingly, the trash who put up the site did so anonymously. But here is other contact information for anyone who would like to contact this model citizen.
email: CITIZENSUNITEDNOTTIMID.ORG@domainsbyproxy.com
phone: 480.624.2599
fax: 480.624.2599
address: Citizens United Not Timid
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Az 85260
I checked smartpages.com and this appears to be a mail drop service, a mail boxes etc. type address. At any rate, feel free to express yourself to this creep.
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@Fetboy: "bearded clam"?
Don't know whether to laugh or cry over that one, bro.
I myself go for "poom poom" or "that thang," but then, the missus and I are as silly as any other couple.
That's it for tonight. Cheers!
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Why publicize?
I have to ask...why publicize this garbage? You are only doing a service to those looking to air their truly ugly and low opinions.
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@ fetboy
While using such words isn't really my thing, I don't want to ban anyone from using words as they choose. People who love words and language almost never want to do that sort of thing. For instance there are many books banned or restricted from being taught in our schools out of political correctness or prudishness or for religious reasons. I always oppose this sort of thing.
Much can be learned from Huckleberry Finn for instance. I have also never been the sort of feminist who thought there was no value in the writing of dead white males.
Neither would I ban the t-shirts which insult Hillary. My God, if the woman could be killed by a few insults, she would've died in Arkansas. Instead, she just keeps going and going and going.
However, there are trolls here at Broadsheet who think despising their sentiments is the same thing as censorship or that ignoring them is the same thing as abuse. One of them always cries loudly about the political correctness of feminists. What he would really like to do is censor Broadsheet. However, I see that they keep letting him crawl out from under his rock. So be it. However, as a private enterprise, Broadsheet would have every right to ban him if they chose. They generously let him proceed, still confused though he is about free speech and what actually constitutes free speech rights.
It is the government which has no right to abridge free speech. However, it is naive to assume that some rights will never rub up against other rights and cause conflicts and difficult decisions need not be made. The fascinating thing about our constitutional process is that it must be necessarily dynamic as new conflicts and new challenges arise.
Have you read Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence? If you haven't, you should.
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it all depends who is on the receiving end
I find the "c" word to be the worst insult that can be thrown at me. I consider myself a feminist (sorry brightstar) and I associate with forward-thinking people, and every one of the females finds that word as offensive as I do. I don't say it, I won't type it because it is so repulsive to me. You may not find the word offensive, I and many others do. And it doesn't matter who says it, in whatever context it may be. Sorta like all the other words tossed around here today - ask a black, a jew, an hispanic how they would feel if those names were thrown at them. To me, it is more than a word, it is a rather crass way of trying to diminish me.
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@ AKA Smith
Well, sure, if you take it literally, the implication is that there have been or would be sexual relations with one's mother. But I don't think people generally mean it literally. If someone says, "Fuck your mother," it's a pretty big insult probably not based on an actual fucking event (potential or otherwise).
To your other point, yes. A mother is a woman. Perhaps Gloria Stenium provides a clue in her January 8 New York Times commentary where she wrote "men especially tend to feel they are regressing to childhood when dealing with a powerful woman..."
Having said that, it's unlikely we'll see t-shirts for sale that suggest "Obama fucks his mother" or "McCain fucks his mother." (Maybe Giuliani?) (Joke.)
Everyone has a mother and probably lots of people love their mothers. Lots of men have sisters and daughters, too. That doesn't seem to stop some individuals from degrading the value of females with words and actions.
Maybe it's simply self interest. When women were denied education and voting rights, men had all the paid gigs and the power to themselves. Moreover, if a man wanted to keep a wife, he had many more tools at his disposal with which to guarantee a woman's fealty and get regular access to sex.
In this great land, five women graduate from university for every four men. A college degree is more or less the bottom-rung price of entry into the American dream nowadays, if that can be defined as a gig with health insurance. (I don't believe access to health care in fact defines the American dream, but it's a practical measure.) With this trend in progress, the dudes are bound to lose traction. It's a slippery slope to a pink collar ghetto. Seventy cents to a dollar, anyone?
Still, why do some men hate women when they have mothers and sisters and daughters? Perhaps because they're scared and because they feel emasculated by the presence of powerful women. The loser who made the Clinton cunt t-shirts, whatever his schtick, will never have the power or the legacy that she has.
Sometimes I think that some (white) men who I have come to know are sort of half-men. They can seem so weak and passive aggressive. It's as though they've never been tested, not really, and yet still ride the historical wave of privilege. They did nothing to deserve these privileges beyond possessing the correct genitals, but they're not about to give them up. And yet, they remain half-men. They lack integrity.
At least the men of station of a century ago had manners and knew how to treat a lady. I like to think so. What happened?
Let's give the lady a chance. That's all I'm saying. Maybe the cunts can do better than the motherfuckers. It's worth a shot. With all the planet's life support systems in decline, and the American dream threatening to turn into a nightmare, what have we got to lose? Let's try Clinton first. Then let's try Obama after that. We'll be methodical about it. We'll try everything.
And if none of our elected leaders comes through, we'll take things into our own hands, just as our founding fathers told us to do in the Declaration of Independence:
"...But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."