Being part of a group that really has no claims to reclamation, it's sometimes easy for me to lose the trees for the forest in these matters.
It's very easy to forget how certain words, while maintaining a certain degree of power in general usage, are devestating when directed towards members of a certain specific social group (rather like the effect of the words "Clown" or "Goof" on a male ex-convict - which is not unlike how the word "Cunt" goes by for most women in our society.. simply just isn't said unless the speaker is expecting a violent reaction).
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branchandroot
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Date: 2006-05-23 11:54 pm (UTC)That's a fair point.
Being part of a group that really has no claims to reclamation, it's sometimes easy for me to lose the trees for the forest in these matters.
It's very easy to forget how certain words, while maintaining a certain degree of power in general usage, are devestating when directed towards members of a certain specific social group (rather like the effect of the words "Clown" or "Goof" on a male ex-convict - which is not unlike how the word "Cunt" goes by for most women in our society.. simply just isn't said unless the speaker is expecting a violent reaction).