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That cunt has balls the last of the four-letter words.

Publication: C: International Contemporary Art
Publication Date: 22-DEC-02
Format: Online - approximately 964 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Part of the experience of being a woman involves the occasional realization that language hasn't caught up with you yet. You have to come up with your own vocabulary. It's hard to believe, for example, that "girl" sparked furious arguments in Women's Studies seminars so recently, when anyone...

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...you'd want to be friends with now wears it as a sassy badge of honour. And while Gloria Steinem may have argued twenty years ago that "bitch" is the ultimate misogynist insult, we take it up when we feel like it, as a word that describes our power, our femininity, our PMS.

Like these other words, my newest favourite is more than mere nomenclature. It's about a mood, a lifestyle, an oppositional and in-your-face way of being. The word is cunt.

It's surprising how many people hate it. They cringe. They say, "Cunt is just...

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