Everyone's Entitled to My Opinion: C-word on the Message Boards

Everyone�s Entitled to My Opinion:  C-word on the Message Board

�from the Soapbox

By Swissvale72

One of my very early graduate courses in administration, 25 years ago, focused on Power.  There was Power of Authority, of which I have none on this site.  There was Power of Influence.  I am hopeful that I�ve accrued a bit of influence given my authorship of frivolous bullshit on this page.  This will be a test case.

I�ve long objected to the use of the word �cunt� on this site.  The word that every woman hates, the word for which there�s really no male corollary.  In my opinion, for what it�s worth, the only comparable slander would be �nigger.�  Yet, when one�s crossed that boundary on this site, the populace quickly calls for the miscreant to be banned, tarred & feathered, burned at the stake a la Joan of Arc, drawn & quartered.  Where �nigger� demeans an entire race of people, �cunt� demeans an entire gender.  Beyond that, both of these words demean, and hopefully offend, anyone within earshot. 

I�m reminded of a trip I made to the Nashua Kiwanis Club some years back.  I was going, as I�m wont to do, hat in hand, explaining to business people that sell their $1 product for about 3 bucks, that I sell my $1 product for 95 cents, the price set by the same unit of government that purchases said product.  Anyway, New Hampshire had just become the 50^th state in the USA to establish a Martin Luther King Holiday.  Had Manchester been awarded the Super Bowl (not sure we were in the running), perhaps we�d have beaten out Arizona. Some ignoramus at the next table, quite publicly suggested that we �shoot four more niggers and take the whole week off.�   He was admonished by the club�s President; I rose and exited the room.  My agency received no donation, but fuck that Kiwanian chapter and their dough.  I feel the same way when I hear members of my gender on the message board refer to female posters as �cunts.�  Personally, I think it�s inexcuseable, indefensible�.remember, there�s no male corollary.

I�m prepared for one of you ignorant fucks, perhaps a few of you scavage dogs, to immediately increase your use of the c-word, perhaps in the thread that will emanate from this article.  Have at it.  It reminds me of the time my dad lined up me and my three brothers after a day of misbehavior, for which my mom threatened to �put me in a home,� and warned us that he �didn�t want to hear a peep� out of us.  I immediately said, �peep, peep,� whereupon my dad beat the shit out of me, and send my disrespectful ass to bed.

Also, don�t think for a minute that I have virgin ears, that I�m easily offended by salty language.  I think that my general writing disproves that.  I�d also bet that I hear more profanity in one day in my work with at-risk children and youth than most of you asshats hear in your workplace in a month.  In fact, one of the interview questions for female counseling applicants queries them as to their potential response to a 12-year-old calling them a �fucking cunt dick-sucking bitch.�  But these kids at least have some causality to their behavior.  What�s your excuse?  I�m going to go out on a limb and assume that not many of our posters are currently in residential treatment.  Maybe there are a few, perhaps a moderator or two, that require a structured daily living environment.

Anyway, my opinion��hope you asshats see fit to cease this bullshit.  In the words of Captain Jack Sparrow to Elizabeth Swan�.�Sticks & Stones, Love.�