using it among people they do not know, good luck with that.

"if anyone is stupid enough to go to Australia". I think the lead reporter who wrote “a very Australian compliment” lives in Australia, but what would he know?

but as a gender slur that expresses contempt for women's bodies, it does not endear itself to women on this board or in this country..Just sayin'.

Happily this survived an alert. While this word is certainly offensive in the US, not in UK or Australia

is so prevalent.

The use of the racist, sexist words is also "acceptable in some places in UK, Australia, and yes, even in the the good old USA as evidenced by twice electing a sexist, racist, sociopath twice to the WH. The disgraceful slurs use against Hillary in 2016, INCLUDING the "C" word, where some HERE justified its use because it is acceptable in the UK and Australia was despicable.

All my life I have heard people justify using racial and sexist slurs, and it's pathetic, but so is "The Human Catastrophe"

It will be interesting if Dutton wins if he will try to follow in the footsteps of trump's DEI policies where he thinks Aboriginal welcomes are 'overdone':

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c209y312q89o

I wish we could give back Murdoch back.

so 'celebrating' it here is about as smart as dumping a turd in a punch bowl.

to the slur? The absolute worst thing one could call a woman? Why?

over Trump. I think cultural context is important.

American women know it’s ok to use the slur in Australia?

in a hurry to take a quick trip on the hydroplane.

I've no idea where you're from. but virtually everyone in the US considers it a contemptous gender slur, so yes, it just might cause offense on a progressive US board whose membership is at least 50% female...Just sayin'.

perfectly acceptable in the UK and Australia.

I have heard the same sorry excuses leveled with other racial and sexist phrases all my life, and it is pathetic.

when the article you linked to does not include it?

Suggesting you edited the original article (which did not contain an expletive) in order to remove the expletive (that wasn't there) is a bit misleading.

I read the article (of which the comment was a very minor part) - the word was not spelled out. Just to make sure, I did a search-in-page. The word is not spelled out in the link you provided.

Why did you ADD it when you originally posted the article?

Because I am not an Australian journalist bound by the style guide of a major metropolitan newspaper.

A word which you knew would be offensive.

You weren't quoting the article, as you implied, and then editing out the expletive when someone here took offense.

You deliberately created the offense by adding the offensive word which did not appear in the article you quoted, and then pretended to edit out what had never been there in the first place.

In other words - it was added here on DU solely to offend - not edited to delete an expletive (as the edit commentary suggests) once a direct quote was offensive.

That quote was not even a focus of the article, and (based on the article) could easily be a different 4-letter word which begins with "c."

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justifying it because it wasn't seen as offensive in another country?
Or maybe 'f-gg-t'... Would we see the same tolerance because it is a different culture?

and has a meaning inseparable from the obscenity of slavery.

C word has been around since the 1200s and has taken on different usage around the English speaking world

Americans own the N world just as surely as we own the horror of the plantations and the White House built with slave labour.

but it took on different usage around the English speaking world...

Just because a word wasn't offensive centuries ago does not mean it is acceptable today.

from the get go, and after abolition within the English empire, synonymous with the United States.

It was derogatory but not synonymous with the slave trade or United States. (I think you mean associated, not synonymous)

They say, "He's a right C***," for "he's a good Joe."

Or even more amusingly, attempting to correct the person who said it. Imagine the reaction when someone asks for a cigarette.

I can still remember the first time I said in the US "I'm going out for a (insert Brit term for cigarette)"

Say what?

It was in a college English class and as I recall there was no protest for the use of the word. I wonder if the book is still read by college students today and how the use of the word is dealt with in the classroom.

That the level of intolerance for mere words on DU has risen to the point that anyone wanting to post anything remotely controversial using language that might offend the oh-so-delicate sensibilities of a group of old farts (and yes, I am one too, and I am well aware of the demographics of this message board) runs the risk of a hidden post. I've been here for over 20 years and I think a lot of posters here have completely forgotten what it was like to be young.

Forget that fact that the OP didn't actually call ANYONE on this board or anywhere else a "cunt", he was merely reporting a story, it doesn't matter because there are a bunch of people here who just can not let anyone else say things that THEY don't like.

As the other poster said, this thread has gone exactly as could be anticipated.

like we haven’t heard it all before. I find it offensive, myself, but I have no interest in stopping any knuckle-dragging mouth-breather's opportunity to showcase their own stupidity. Just don’t expect my silence as you express your misogyny. I will not grant it.

And although we do not interact that much, I want to know if your opinion of me, after 21 years of being on the same message board, is that I am a misogynist? Really?

Mansplaining? LOL. Rich, I must say.

Hell, I wouldn't be living up to my user name if I wasn't willing to go against the grain now would I?

You are free to think anything you want of me. I promise I will not lose any sleep over it. The people who have actually paid attention to the things I have written over the years, and the other former DU'ers I am in contact with regularly have different views of who I am and whether or not I am a decent sort.
Be offended and say whatever you want. I can assure you I will not alert on anything you say.

But no one called you any offensive name

As comedian Steve Hughes so accurately pointed out, "when did sticks and stones may break my bones" stop being relevant?"

Why don't you call your mother, sister, wife, girlfriend, female coworker or any other female you know a cunt to their face and let us know how they responded.

Which is EXACTLY the point the OP was trying to make.

think nothing of it when you used the word. So, not calling them a cunt, but calling Chump a cunt.

They'd all be okay with that?

Are they American?

Really?

This Original Post was about an Australian politician being called a cunt by a constituent on the street, a slur that by their standards, is common vernacular.

The fact that you and others on this board absolutely REFUSE to see the distinction is remarkable, if nothing else.

This sub thread is headed the exact same direction as the one I had in this thread starting with this post a little over 6 years ago.

It's almost exactly the same. People getting offended at a word used in a story that had nothing to do with them, using vernacular common to a different culture and place and faulting the person that reported it for being insensitive and then commenting on it as if the OP was referring to them.

THESE ARE AUSSIES WE ARE TALKING ABOUT! They are free people, fully able to determine what is offensive and what isn't. They are under no obligation to bow to the sensitivities of other nations or cultures, much less the notoriously puritanical hypocrites that Americans tend to be or even more particularly, the tiny sliver of the American electorate represented by the members of Democratric Underground dot com.

Typical mansplaining straw man stuff.

Why on Earth would someone post something on DU, an American liberal website (with rules about sexist language) using cunt in the OP title other than to shit stir?

Are you telling me the OP was unaware that females on DU and hopefully some males would find that offensive? Uh-huh.

By your indignation at people's indignation over a word, it would seem you're okay with any OP quoting any words that may have a different meaning in the US. Start one with the word faggot or nigger in the OP and see how long that lasts.

a bunch of pseudo intellectuals pretending they are having a worthwhile discussion when they are really just looking for a rise.

I am a woman and I really couldn't care less if someone said it to me. Dramatized words

same as the word whore

Just a simple thing to do to respect women. But, yes there is a but, it is So damn hard not to with all these Trump women throughout the regime.
But, I will not out of respect for all the other women. Not because I have a thimble of respect for ANY trump women. Noem, Marge, Podium Barbie, Boobert, Ingraham. Melania, Gabbert, Mace, trumps lawyer, Many more, I will never call you that…….only think it. In An Australian framing.
Watched the Ted Lasso co star Standup special on HBO, he explained the use of it from his homeland.

Before that show, I never heard it in that context.

He certainly didn't mean it as a term of endearment.

I'm certain you know the word is very offensive to many women who visit this site.

Weird way to spend a beautiful Monday but, whatever.

I have zero interest in participating in this conversation any further.

Using words derived from the names of genital parts really reveals a lot about a person who does so.

What is revealed is something about that person's personality that is pretty damned ugly, I think.

Now, I don't cringe at the C-word or the P-word. I'm far past that, just from age and familiarity. That, however, does not mean that I don't alter my perception of a person who does use such words in general discussion.

So carry right on with that nonsense, but realize that you are revealing more about yourself than you might like.

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