the c word wasn't always a derogatory word for a woman's vagina/sexuality. once upon a time women were equal to men and we all just got along. until we settled and began to 'own' stuff... which meant men now felt they owned their women and children, along with livestock and land.
in the last several 1000 years the c word has come to mean a bad woman who has too much sex. a disgusting woman. a feral woman. the easiest most harshest, most vulgar way to insult a woman.
it came to be the biggest most derogatory swear word in our language.
now why is it that a c@^t is worse than dick, prick, penis, nob, asshole, ball-sack, cock, bollocks, scrotum? why is it that their is no equally derogatory swear word for men? how did women get labeled with the worst word in the world - simply because we have a sexual appetite?
the answer is easy: patriarchy and misogyny. ownership of women and of their sexuality. one way to put a woman in her place is to teach her having a sexuality is wrong and bad. men don't have the same restrictions and confinements so they don't get a vulgar swear word for their sexual behavior.
thing is many women i know use this word to describe people who really annoy them and to me that is just not on!
for e.g. one friend called a MRA we know a c@^t and i told her she calling this man 'female genitalia' and that is just not ok. female genitalia is not a bad thing so don't be using that word to put a man down. when you say the c word you're essentially calling some one a vagina or labia or some other wonderful part of the female anatomy. you're also buying in to the notion that female genitalia/sexuality is bad.
