Sexual words as slurs

[Henry M]

There have also been people who have suggest the same for "nigger".
I've always had a hard time (no pun intended) with sex words being 
used derogatorialy. "Fucking" is a good thing. (Fucking right!) So 
are the body parts. I've got nothing against people that are 
literally bastards. Now "shit" is another story. 

> Date:          Tue, 14 Jan 1997 16:00:53 -0500 (EST)
> From:          ac038 at osfn.rhilinet.gov (Paul DiFilippo)
> To:            pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject:       Sexual words as slurs
> Reply-to:      ac038 at osfn.rhilinet.gov

> 
> 
> Once in the now-vanished fanzine Apa Eros, there was an essay
> speculating on what it would be like to live in a word where
> all words for parts of the anatomy and sexual intercourse were
> used as terms of approbation and commendation, instead of
> derogatorily.  After doing a good job, for instance, your boss
> would come up to you and say, "Harry, you're a helluva competent
> prick!"  (Or "cunt" for Harietta.)  And so on and so on.  It's
> a weird mental game to play, using these words in a pleasant,
> benign manner, and goes to show how messed up our attitudes
> toward sex are, that we can only use the terms oppressively.
> [[[Whoops!  Typo alert:  second line should read "...live in a
> _world_....]]]
> 
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