How Offensive Is The Word "Cunt" To You?

[Deleted member 23850]

It's probably the only word that, depending on where you are (The U.S. and Canada, for example), can either be offensive as all hell to the point where you're fucking done if you use it directly towards someone (especially a woman), or a totally innocuous term that's considered even friendly (!). How do you react when you hear it, and how would you react if somebody called you it?

Personally, I'm not entirely sure how to feel about it, but it certainly is one of the few words that is genuinely shocking to hear. If I use it against somebody, that person has to be basically someone like Charles Manson or a pedophile with multiple victims. Basically a piece of shit with no redeeming values.

 

[Grug]

I'm Australian.

 

[It’s Time To Go]

In Ireland and the UK it's a very common word so I'm not offended by it. I dislike it because I'm tired of gendered insults and don't really say it myself anymore.

 

[Baphomet]

I didn't hear it at all where I was raised but it doesn't bother me , but I wouldn't use it personally.

 

[Mack]

I mean will all used it in the heat of the moment while enjoying some sexy time, right?

 

[CrazyAndy]

How do you react when you hear it, and how would you react if somebody called you it?

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Couldn't care less to both questions.

 

[ZeoVGM]

Reporting in from the USA here.

My female significant other uses the word like it's "the."

 

[Deleted member 3897]

Not at all.

Also, you made me remember this:

 

[CortexVortex]

Not at all.
It even has a nostalgic feel about it as my former boss used to call us that.

 

[Scullibundo]

I'm Australian.

 

[Jroc]

Canadian.

Never knew it was considered particularly offensive until I started lurking GAF.

 

[HomokHarcos]

I never hear people say that in North America. I honestly thought it was a British and Australian term.

 

[Indelible]

I don't say it but I'am not offended by it.

 

[Maktokious]

Equally as offensive as the word "dick". Can be used both as a bad word, or as friendly banter. Hell, I call my wife a cunt (lovingly) and she returns in kind.
I do recognize that not everyone shares this outlook, however, and rarely use it around people I don't know.

I'm Danish.

 

[HandsomeCharles]

Hearing the word, not offensive at all. Having it directed at me (with malice), offensive, but not much more than other words.

 

[Deleted member 27246]

I'm from the Netherlands, so no it isn't offensive to me at all. Dutch swearing is SO much worse.

 

[erpg]

Canadian.

Shocking, but not offensive.

 

[Delphine]

I'm French, AND a woman (and I think that counts in this situation)

It would depend on the context, but most times I've heard it being used in my life (usually targeted to me) it was meant to be: HELLA OFFENSIVE.
So I don't like it. It's a gendered slur a majority of the toxic gamer dudes I've met in the 15 years I've been gaming online, have been using with thorough consistency.

 

[strudelkuchen]

'Cunt' is as offensive to me as 'fuck', so not at all.

 

[DryCreek]

not offensive to me but i dont use the word myself.

 

[iapetus]

I don't think how common it is impacts on how offensive it is. It just means a lot of us are ready to use gendered insults and use the fact that others do as well as an excuse.

 

[Eumi]

Here in the UK it's used constantly.

It doesn't even feel gendered. Like, bitch is absolutely a gendered insult but cunt just isn't used like one, at least in all the ways I've heard it here.

I feel like using Cunt would if anything soften someone's insult towards me at this point.

 

[Modest_Modsoul]

English is not my main language, but...

I don't know, I could treat it as the same with "asshole" word maybe?

It depends on how & who used it though.

 

[Maturin]

Not very. It's a lovely word. But I don't use it in front of my kids.

 

[WolfForager]

Irish here, it's interchangeable with "mate" for us.

 

[Orbulon]

Devoted sister, beloved cunt.

 

[Deleted member 23850]

Not at all.
It even has a nostalgic feel about it as my former boss used to call us that.

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Out in the open casually? What a world you live in!

 

[Deleted member 14377]

whats it to ya, ya cunt?

 

[Nyx]

Words don't bother me much tbh.

 

[NeonCarbon]

I might be in the minority of Brits here, but I consider it to be offensive, same as other curse/swear words.
Sure you can say it between friends etc

 

[Dyno]

In from the UK, I'll take a side order of it with my fish and chips or afternoon tea

 

[Maxim726x]

The only words that are offensive at this point are racial slurs.

Beyond that, other insults have lost all meaning. Cunt among them.

 

[Rayven_king]

when Im hanging out with UK folks its like calling someone an asshole

 

[Laserdisk]

British so not even slightly but I am a man.
My brother used to make his numberplate in the Xbox NFS games say CUNTY, alwyas found that funny.

 

[Tabs2002]

Brit, find it not offensive

 

[Br3wnor]

Not at all but I'm American so I rarely get to use the word. It's probably my favorite curse word too, only time I get to use it is among my close friends.

 

[shaneo632]

I'm English so not really a lot. I like using it sparingly as it's the only swear word that actually shocks people anymore or has any impact. My American friends still find it weird how much we use it.

 

[Maximo]

An an aussie I probably hear it or say it at least a few times a day. As I play with more online friends its a word I try to be conscious of and use sparingly haha.

 

[Deleted member 8852]

No, though I don't use it since I don't swear in english.

 

[HotAndTender]

I'm not offended, i just think less of people that use it.

 

[KillLaCam]

The least offensive insult possible

 

[danowat]

Depends on the context and who is around me.

Those who say it's very common in the UK must be moving in some very different circles to me, I rarely hear it.

 

[Vault]

 

[Deleted member 16136]

In the UK, its common as muck. When I was growing up it was pretty much top dog rare swear (in school at least), but now its just boringly overused and everything and everyone under the sun is a cunt.

It's weird hearing Americans use it.

 

[Westbahnhof]

It depends. An American person using it to exclusively refer to women is for example very different from a Scottish person using it indiscriminately.

 

[ReplacementPelican]

I'm English so it's pretty common language.

Have only really seen Americans get weird about it, I think they'd only use it towards a woman.

 

[deadasdisco]

I'm an Aussie, pretty much natural vocabulary around here, don't think much of it hahah.

 

[11037]

I'm an Aussie, I very frequently hear that word. Don't really such it much but I wouldn't say the word offends me.

 

[hjort]

I'm Swedish, so my perception of these things might miss out a lot of context and such, but I don't find it particularly offensive since I'm so accustomed to hearing it in media and stuff. On the other hand I try not to use the Swedish equivalent of the word due to the gendered aspects of the whole thing, so maybe I should be more offended than I am.

 

[Etrian Oddity]

In America, it's definitely a gendered, hateful word. But that does seem to be changing with all the popular British TV shows that have skyrocketed it in pop culture here. I think it's becoming less gendered (kinda like how "dick" is), but there's still a ton of bad faith use of the word.

Probably why "cunt" with an American accent sounds pretty hateful and vile, and a whimsical swear word with a British or Irish accent.