Kurt Sutter, “A LITTLE BIT OF MY SEMANTIC THEORY OF SLURS AND HOW THAT RELATES TO MY AFFECTION FOR THE USE OF ‘SEE YOU AND TEA’”
1. The point is that you choose how offended you want to be about any word. It’s your choice to be offended. You can choose not to be offended too; it’s entirely up to you.
2. As far as I know, Geoffrey Chaucer used the word “cunt” a number of times in his Canterbury Tales (although he spells it differently and variously), which, at around 1390-ish, considerably pre-dates James Joyce. The “whore street” he’s referring to is “Gropecunt Lane” (actually in Oxford, not London), which is now know by the far less mentally arresting “Magpie Lane”.
These factual errors notwithstanding, the point is solid.
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The small, medieval town of Shrewsbury had a Gropecunt Lane for hundreds of years. Now it is simply named Grope Lane, and it is filled with boutiques.
Additionally: I am going to say “There’s a certain… oaky cuntiness to this…” next time I am wine tasting. And that, dear friends, is a promise.
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