Comments on: Why calling someone a slut for using birth control is different than calling someone a c* for being a c*

By: R

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:17:00 +0000

I remember my first husband screaming this word at me at me one day while we were sitting in a parked car. He was so loud and I was crying so hard that someone called the cops to see if I was all right. It’s been almost 30 years and I can still hear it. Did I deserve it? Yes, because I complained about being used by my unemployed-by-choice husband’s beer buddies as their personal taxi service. “YOU’RE A C***, AND C***S DESERVE TO BE USED!!!”

Bad behavior doesn’t excuse bad behavior. Roger Green is right. It’s a cruel, vile way to say that women are inferior to men, the same way the N-word is used to infer that African Americans are less than human. Remember when you blogged for the TU and commenters tried to insult you by calling you gay? Justifying the C-word’s use by saying that you can use it to insult a man is the same thing; you’re putting down a man for having the worst female qualities.

What Rush Limbaugh said was horrible, and so was what Bill Maher said. This post strikes me as a rationalization of Maher’s remarks and it doesn’t hold water. Public or private, both of them were insulted needlessly. Even the little shots about Palin taking care of her “baby with Down’s Syndrome” were just plain nasty and indefensible.

Please tell me how name-calling is an improvement over discussing solutions to our nation’s woes.

Roz

By: Roger Green

Roger Green — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:46:00 +0000

I have to agree with Courtney here. C*** is a way to dismiss women (even dismissible way) that makes her her body part. I don’t like it, don’t like that Maher used it.

By: Charlie Vella

Charlie Vella — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:08:00 +0000

Even if they were equally bad, two wrongs don’t make a right.

By: Courtney Smith

Courtney Smith — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:03:00 +0000

I’m going to be totally PC and annoying here. I *hate* the use of the word Cunt as a swear word, for the same reason I hate using the word retarded, or gay. Why is it unspeakably disgusting to use a word that means vagina? Why is that an insult? I realize it *is*, but it reeks of misogyny to me. So I will continue to find it offensive when anyone uses that word, for that reason.

By: kevinmarshall

kevinmarshall — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:07:00 +0000

I know Maher has identified with libertarians in the past, but mostly because he thinks prostitution and marijuana should be legalized. As it pertains to government and public funds use, though, he's totally not a libertarian despite what he might say. Also, you want a real laugh, look at THIS pathetic attempt at equivocation: Liberal hate speech. It's both sad AND offensive, neither in the way they intend.

By: Stephen Henel

Stephen Henel — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:47:00 +0000

Was Bill Maher really the best punching bag they could find for the left? The guy’s a libertarian. He actually agrees with the right on some of their views regarding contraception, especially whether the government should pay for it.

Also, while I’m not a huge fan of the “it was a joke” defense, Maher has a lot more credibility when he says his job is to make people laugh than Limbaugh does.