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Don't mistake reddit popularisation of "cunt" for reality. It's certainly used heavily by some subcultures, ex and current armed forces, young men. Mostly it's

by ggm 2y ago

Don't mistake reddit popularisation of "cunt" for reality. It's certainly used heavily by some subcultures, ex and current armed forces, young men. Mostly it's braggadocio and routine use in everyday conversations is not normal no matter what redditors say. It's a version of "drop bear" trapping for unwary visitors. It's extremely unacceptable to most people and is avoided. Coon cheese changed its name to "Cheer" despite having no context where it's origin story related to its slang use. It's Edward Coon of Philadelphia's proprietary branding. Slang words for aboriginal females have fallen out of use and were all highly derogatory along with most other objectifying language about the aborigines. Terms like murri and mob are self-referential use. I was shocked by use of Yid 20 years ago. I think some people in Australia had little or no context of its use in Europe. Likewise Paki which is still used, to a British person from the era of the BNP and paki-bashing this word is anathema. Jap went from a term of derision to a term with probably positive meanings, jap cars are cheap, well made and reliable. Chink was and remains abusive since the gold rush era and racist white Australia immigration policy. A nong has nothing to do with the N word, ningnong just means a stupid person. Mong is offensive everywhere.

teractiveodular 2y ago
For context, we're both talking about Australia here, right? What's (IMHO) uniquely Australian is the slang adoption of "cunt" for men, sometimes in a positive sense (good cunt, mad cunt), sometimes negative (dog cunt, shit cunt). But, just like the US, you absolutely cannot use it to refer to a woman unless you intend to offend.
- ggm 2y ago
  Yes. Australia. But, that usage remains highly contested as acceptable. It's been my experience that it's an emerging trend which is leveraging social media. It's like code switching, few people would do it in front of their wives, girlfriends, bosses or strangers. Whereas "fuck" is almost entirely normalised amongst the under 60s. My 80yo contacts still apologise when they say it. "Being John Malkovitch" implied it was edgy arts scene in the US who used it. For me, it's been ex forces telecommunications technicians and .. younger bogans. This is why I think it's braggadocio: Used because it remains transgressive.
- Loughla 2y ago
  In the US, the youth are using the word cunt like we used to say bitch. Could be bad could be good, just depends on the context.
  - pessimizer 2y ago
    I don't really think they are. I almost only see it used on women (and gay men) in the US; it's just become more acceptable to publicly call women "cunts" lately. I think it's come from straight middle-class adoption of drag queen culture, which young people grew up with.
akdor1154 2y ago
> Mong is offensive everywhere Mong is the height of slurs - simultaneously racist and a reference to 'mongoloid', a cringeful historical term for Downs Syndrome. Hundreds of years of racial elitism distilled into a single syllable.
starkrights 2y ago
Not mentioned is the large, laaarge youth subculture, sometimes called the ‘alt crowd’, that it’s become popular as a positive term- but honestly it’s permeated into the mainstream for sometime already as well. Calling things cunty or saying someone looks “so cunt” or “so cunty” is a term of praise and endearment in basically any situation I can think of among 3-4 separate social circles I’m in. The cutoff is pretty quick- I’d say the proportion of people who would be taken heavily aback has a sharp uptick starting around 26-28 year olds. It’s not just Reddit, it’s tiktok and Instagram, the main, or at least two extremely, inconceivably large propagaters of youth slang and culture.
dangsucksdick1 2y ago
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DiscourseFan 2y ago
“Cunt” is not a particularly offensive word though. I think its a bit more taboo than bitch now, but I think its very common to use cunt/bitch/whore around women to signal a friendly/relaxed attitude.

by ggm 2y ago

teractiveodular 2y ago

For context, we're both talking about Australia here, right? What's (IMHO) uniquely Australian is the slang adoption of "cunt" for men, sometimes in a positive sense (good cunt, mad cunt), sometimes negative (dog cunt, shit cunt). But, just like the US, you absolutely cannot use it to refer to a woman unless you intend to offend.

ggm 2y ago
Yes. Australia. But, that usage remains highly contested as acceptable. It's been my experience that it's an emerging trend which is leveraging social media. It's like code switching, few people would do it in front of their wives, girlfriends, bosses or strangers. Whereas "fuck" is almost entirely normalised amongst the under 60s. My 80yo contacts still apologise when they say it. "Being John Malkovitch" implied it was edgy arts scene in the US who used it. For me, it's been ex forces telecommunications technicians and .. younger bogans. This is why I think it's braggadocio: Used because it remains transgressive.
Loughla 2y ago
In the US, the youth are using the word cunt like we used to say bitch. Could be bad could be good, just depends on the context.
- pessimizer 2y ago
  I don't really think they are. I almost only see it used on women (and gay men) in the US; it's just become more acceptable to publicly call women "cunts" lately. I think it's come from straight middle-class adoption of drag queen culture, which young people grew up with.

akdor1154 2y ago

> Mong is offensive everywhere Mong is the height of slurs - simultaneously racist and a reference to 'mongoloid', a cringeful historical term for Downs Syndrome. Hundreds of years of racial elitism distilled into a single syllable.

starkrights 2y ago

Not mentioned is the large, laaarge youth subculture, sometimes called the ‘alt crowd’, that it’s become popular as a positive term- but honestly it’s permeated into the mainstream for sometime already as well. Calling things cunty or saying someone looks “so cunt” or “so cunty” is a term of praise and endearment in basically any situation I can think of among 3-4 separate social circles I’m in. The cutoff is pretty quick- I’d say the proportion of people who would be taken heavily aback has a sharp uptick starting around 26-28 year olds. It’s not just Reddit, it’s tiktok and Instagram, the main, or at least two extremely, inconceivably large propagaters of youth slang and culture.

dangsucksdick1 2y ago

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DiscourseFan 2y ago

“Cunt” is not a particularly offensive word though. I think its a bit more taboo than bitch now, but I think its very common to use cunt/bitch/whore around women to signal a friendly/relaxed attitude.