sounds like "punt"

[Byrnes Weir]

At 07:13 PM 1/14/97 -0600, Diana York Blaine wrote:
>Just a thought on the cunt controversy--why are many women more squeamish
>about it than other terms? Perhaps because women feel so violated in so
>many aspects of their lives, e.g. we often get told by total strangers to
>"smile" or "cheer up" as if our mien is public property, that having one
>fetishized word, bracketed off from casual discourse, creates the illusion
>of a kind of untouchable zone--an eddy of dignity as it were. This is
>total speculation of my part, and I'm sure some feminist somewhere has
>probably tackled the issue with greater eloquence, but I find this idea
>more compelling than simply arguing that its harsh monosyllabic
>anglo-saxonism is too icky.  BTW for an amusing passage on why so many of
>our derogatory terms refer to female genitalia and/or the man's relation
>to the female (think "motherfucker") see Fanny Flagg's _Fried Green
>Tomatoes_.  She also does a funny number on "balls."   Diana
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                        Diana:



                                        I would be extremely careful...


                of creating problems ..... 



                                        I am a man




                                                I was born  inside a


                        woman





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