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Turbam
07/15/18 7:09:12 AM
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I'm tired of the misogyny
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07/15/18 7:12:09 AM
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deupd_u
07/15/18 7:12:38 AM
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Cagina?
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shnangyboos
07/15/18 7:16:08 AM
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Blah blah dehumanizing blah blah reducing blah!
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Funkydog
07/15/18 7:20:37 AM
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America has yet to find the love in the word us brits and Aussies have
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ArchiePeck
07/15/18 7:23:10 AM
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Too offensive a word for Americans, it's still kind of taboo for most Hollywood films.
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Cheater87
07/15/18 7:28:41 AM
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Because the female human body is taboo in the US.
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au_gold
07/15/18 7:30:28 AM
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Sexism.
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scar the 1
07/15/18 7:30:54 AM
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The c word for penis is also a bird
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Error1355
07/15/18 7:32:28 AM
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Because the c-word for women's genitalia is also used as a sexist slur and is considered one of the most offensive words in the English language in America.

If you're going to ask me why it's viewed as that offensive, you're asking me a greater cultural question than GameFAQs.
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scar the 1
07/15/18 7:56:58 AM
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The d word for penis is also a man's name
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KLouD_KoNNeCteD
07/15/18 7:57:31 AM
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cooter??
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UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 7:59:57 AM
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Because of context.

Cock is both an animal and generally a more comical word.

"Hey don't finish my cereal you cock"

C*** is nothing but an insult in every nation except Australia.

No one says "Morning Sarah, your fat c*** looks lovely today."

Same reason you can say buttface but you can't say n*****
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Illuminoius
07/15/18 8:00:21 AM
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because one word has become considered one of the most sexist, offensive slurs and the other hasn't
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teepan95
07/15/18 8:53:47 AM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
C*** is nothing but an insult in every nation except Australia.

And the UK.
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thelastgooduser
07/15/18 8:56:12 AM
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Error1355 posted...
Because the c-word for women's genitalia is also used as a sexist slur and is considered one of the most offensive words in the English language in America.

Weirdly America is the only western place that considers it sexist or a gendered insult.
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gatorsPENSbucs
07/15/18 8:58:10 AM
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Because words are very bad and we shouldn't say words that might upset a couple people.
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scar the 1
07/15/18 8:59:05 AM
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thelastgooduser posted...
Error1355 posted...
Because the c-word for women's genitalia is also used as a sexist slur and is considered one of the most offensive words in the English language in America.

Weirdly America is the only western place that considers it sexist or a gendered insult.

I dunno I think a lot of places consider it a sexist insult. I didn't know Americans considered it gendered. Is it weird for an American to call a man a c***?

EDIT: Huh, I thought the system would auto-censor that like they do with fuck and shit
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LightningAce11
07/15/18 8:59:42 AM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
No one says "Morning Sarah, your fat c*** looks lovely today."

But do people say "Morning Jimmy, your cock is looking fine!"
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Darkrobotisback
07/15/18 9:00:14 AM
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Can we say clit though?
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LinkFanatic
07/15/18 9:19:08 AM
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Because it hasn't lost its offensiveness, unlike the word "bitch", which is also sometimes used in a sexist fashion.
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Bokothechoco2
07/15/18 9:19:45 AM
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LightningAce11 posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
No one says "Morning Sarah, your fat c*** looks lovely today."

But do people say "Morning Jimmy, your cock is looking fine!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jFTYrpurVc" data-time="
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AvlButtslam
07/15/18 9:22:44 AM
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Bokothechoco2 posted...
LightningAce11 posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
No one says "Morning Sarah, your fat c*** looks lovely today."

But do people say "Morning Jimmy, your cock is looking fine!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jFTYrpurVc" data-time="

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CanuckCowboy
07/15/18 9:22:58 AM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
No one says "Morning Sarah, your fat c*** looks lovely today."


So in your life "morning Steve, your fat cock looks lovely this morning" is a thing people say?
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UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 9:57:22 AM
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CanuckCowboy posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
No one says "Morning Sarah, your fat c*** looks lovely today."


So in your life "morning Steve, your fat cock looks lovely this morning" is a thing people say?

LightningAce11 posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
No one says "Morning Sarah, your fat c*** looks lovely today."

But do people say "Morning Jimmy, your cock is looking fine!"

UnfairRepresent posted...
Hey don't finish my cereal you cock"


you can really tell which users read posts and which read snippets
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Deadpool_18
07/15/18 9:58:39 AM
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Funkydog posted...
America has yet to find the love in the word us brits and Aussies have


Seriously. Its a great word. But only here in America can you use it for anything and still get brow beaten by a feminist.
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Deadpool_18
07/15/18 9:59:42 AM
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LinkFanatic posted...
Because it hasn't lost its offensiveness.


It actually has. America is just playing catch-up with everybody else.
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Raikuro
07/15/18 10:05:31 AM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
"Hey don't finish my cereal you cock"

You could replace cock with the other c word and it would still mean the same thing. I've only ever heard it as a general insult and it's weird how people are suddenly getting up in arms over it again. But maybe I'm just used to watching British/Australian/U.S. premium cable shows. Rarely ever hear it used exclusively to refer to a woman's vagina, more like another version of bitch.
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SailorGoon
07/15/18 10:08:21 AM
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UnfairRepresent posted...

you can really tell which users read posts and which read snippets

Those are two very different usages of said words. Definitely not comparable.

Hey don't finish my cereal you cock

Is more comparable to:
Oi c***, fuck off from me lucky charms

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HotLap
07/15/18 10:09:02 AM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
Same reason you can say buttface but you can't say n*****


So buttface is the culturally acceptable way of saying the n-word, huh?
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Abyssion
07/15/18 10:13:02 AM
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It depends. Just like any other word. It's not about censorship, but having a filter. When it comes to TV, it just depends on the rating.

And I don't get the England/Australia argument. BBC censors the word. At least BBC America does. Is that our fault or theirs? I actually don't know.
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UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 10:13:56 AM
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Raikuro posted...

You could replace cock with the other c word and it would still mean the same thing.

Only in Australia
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ManOfAlpha
07/15/18 10:14:31 AM
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my cock is big
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catboy0_0
07/15/18 10:22:59 AM
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johnny cage?
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Funkydog
07/15/18 10:41:15 AM
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Abyssion posted...
It depends. Just like any other word. It's not about censorship, but having a filter. When it comes to TV, it just depends on the rating.

And I don't get the England/Australia argument. BBC censors the word. At least BBC America does. Is that our fault or theirs? I actually don't know.

That's America, we can say it fine here when past the watershed.

UnfairRepresent posted...
Raikuro posted...

You could replace cock with the other c word and it would still mean the same thing.

Only in Australia

Plenty of people in Britain use it similarly tbh.
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Abyssion
07/15/18 10:49:53 AM
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Funkydog posted...
Abyssion posted...
It depends. Just like any other word. It's not about censorship, but having a filter. When it comes to TV, it just depends on the rating.

And I don't get the England/Australia argument. BBC censors the word. At least BBC America does. Is that our fault or theirs? I actually don't know.

That's America, we can say it fine here when past the watershed.


Ah, okay. Strangely though, I saw a video posted on Twitter once, and it was a Liam Gallagher interview. He said fuck a few times, but only the c word was censored. It was pretty bizarre.

But then again, this site is the same way I'm just learning. I guess because it can only be used in a flaming sense?
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Funkydog
07/15/18 10:53:43 AM
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Abyssion posted...
Ah, okay. Strangely though, I saw a video posted on Twitter once, and it was a Liam Gallagher interview. He said fuck a few times, but only the c word was censored. It was pretty bizarre.

But then again, this site is the same way I'm just learning. I guess because it can only be used in a flaming sense?

Oh, if it's on twitter than might be different. As no real "watershed" rules on that. No idea how they do it for that really - just that past whatever the watershed is (8/9pm or something?) the rules on what can be said is pretty relaxed.
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JE19426
07/15/18 10:57:55 AM
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Abyssion posted...
BBC censors the word. At least BBC America does. Is that our fault or theirs? I actually don't know.


BBC UK's editorial guidelines seem to put the "woman's c word" on the same level as fuck.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/editorialguidelines/guidance/strong-language/guidance-full
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P4wn4g3
07/15/18 11:45:11 AM
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Error1355 posted...
Because the c-word for women's genitalia is also used as a sexist slur and is considered one of the most offensive words in the English language in America.

Only by feminists. Never met anyone else that thought it was offensive. But everyone else thinks feminists in general are offensive, so let's just make everything they say moddable and even it out.


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UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 11:46:04 AM
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P4wn4g3 posted...

Only by feminists. Never met anyone else that thought it was offensive.

You're either Australian or sheltered
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Error1355
07/15/18 11:50:43 AM
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P4wn4g3 posted...
Only by feminists. Never met anyone else that thought it was offensive.

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic here or not because that's such a blatantly inaccurate comment. lol
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P4wn4g3
07/15/18 11:51:09 AM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
P4wn4g3 posted...

Only by feminists. Never met anyone else that thought it was offensive.

You're either Australian or sheltered

Neither really.
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mario masta
07/15/18 11:55:04 AM
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C*** is incredibly offensive to women in the US, but aren't there other words that are considered offensive depending on where you speak English?
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P4wn4g3
07/15/18 11:56:40 AM
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Whore and bitch are worse. *shrug*
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SailorGoon
07/15/18 11:58:04 AM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
P4wn4g3 posted...

Only by feminists. Never met anyone else that thought it was offensive.

You're either Australian or sheltered

He could be from Scotland or wherever that place is where they say "tae" instead of "the".
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Typhon
07/15/18 2:31:24 PM
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I use both, in America, but never as an insult.
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Webmaster4531
07/15/18 2:32:56 PM
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Error1355 posted...
considered one of the most offensive words in the English language in America.

No.
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Zikten
07/15/18 2:34:13 PM
#49:


Turbam posted...
I'm tired of the misogyny

you think it's misogynous to ban the most misogynous word? C word is the worst thing you can call a woman. it's like the N word for females
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Error1355
07/15/18 2:34:33 PM
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Webmaster4531 posted...
No.

oh ok
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