Should we stop calling men dicks as well?
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Ideally, yes. If hostile. Or don't. Civility is a virtue but it's not the end of the world. Abusive people undermine themselves.
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But I don't really know the connotations in the US. Here it refers to men & is rude but doesn't have a really nasty edge. Connotations matter. Like how 'Paki' & 'Brit' are both abbreviations but 'Paki' is understood as racist while 'Brit' is not so they are not comparable.
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I prefer twunt
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Me, stealing this delightful edition to the Languagepic.twitter.com/CWxPZL9ZrM
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I’d love to take credit, but I first heard Helen use it...not at me ftr
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I appreciate the honesty, especially in a thing as small as this. I told my brother, and he asked what it meant

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If I wasn’t honest on twitter, I’d be a twunt. Enjoy the new word.
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Some of us are used to it now, only because of British twitter. To Americans not having that exposure it’s like the n word.
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I call men and women cunt. But people here are very squeamish about it so I have to be really comfortable with someone to use that kind of language around them.
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Soon after I moved from NYC to Michigan, a coworker had to take me aside and explain that “cunt” was a very, very, bad word and please stop calling people that.
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I call people cunts both jokingly and in an insulting way depending on the situation. Anyone can be a cunt.
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Here in Oz, it’s weird. For most people it’s super offensive, but for some people, usually much more working class, it can be quite neutral. I’ve only been called that once, it was recent,& it was from a rough bloke who called me a “good c**t”, but meant as the highest praise.
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Why do people only now get that words carry different meaning in different places. My Pakistani-American friends when I went to school in the UK called themselves Pakis for short all the time. The English were horrified.
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It’s the same in America, though I do know women who like and use the term. I also know women that get quite offended. Bottom line for me is that if you’re willing to ignore intent I can’t take your indignation seriously.
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We can talk about how tea tastes like dishwater if you like.
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"Talk about something else, please, yanks." Won't happen soon. The use of a vulgar pejorative provides too many of us with a risk-free opportunity to parade righteousness. Hordes of Americans view these moments as moral golden tickets.
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