I mean that there is nothing about being a woman that has anything to do with what it means to act like a cunt. There is the association that the word has with femininity and thus with all the (bad) things femininity can signify to people, but that is a historical association. The word doesn't mean 'woman', or even 'feminine', though in other contexts yeah, female genitalia--but words are perfectly capable of having radically different meanings depending on context. I'd only use it because it seems stronger and more shocking than "asshole" or something like that.
Interestingly, wikipedia has this to say:
""Cunt" can also be used informally as a derogatory epithet in referring to a person of either sex, but this usage is relatively recent, dating back only as far as the late nineteenth century.[3] Reflecting different national usages, the Compact Oxford English Dictionary defines "cunt" as "an unpleasant or stupid person", whereas Merriam-Webster defines the term as "a disparaging term for a woman" and "a woman regarded as a sexual object"; the Macquarie Dictionary of Australian English defines it as "a despicable man". When used as a slang term with a positive qualifier (good, funny, clever, etc) in countries such as Great Britain, New Zealand and Australia, it conveys a positive sense of the object or person to which it refers."
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Date: 2010-05-31 07:57 pm (UTC)Interestingly, wikipedia has this to say:
""Cunt" can also be used informally as a derogatory epithet in referring to a person of either sex, but this usage is relatively recent, dating back only as far as the late nineteenth century.[3] Reflecting different national usages, the Compact Oxford English Dictionary defines "cunt" as "an unpleasant or stupid person", whereas Merriam-Webster defines the term as "a disparaging term for a woman" and "a woman regarded as a sexual object"; the Macquarie Dictionary of Australian English defines it as "a despicable man". When used as a slang term with a positive qualifier (good, funny, clever, etc) in countries such as Great Britain, New Zealand and Australia, it conveys a positive sense of the object or person to which it refers."
Just pretend I'm British.