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LAS14

(13,781 posts)
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 01:38 PM Jan 2018

I wanted to call Trump a c*nt, but...

... he's not deep and warm. (could have been "deep or warm" )

This was the wonderful text (without the asterisks) of a placard at one of the recent Women's Marches. I want to redeem the word! The sentiment is brilliant. I figured my post would get banned if I didn't use the asterisks.

Anyway, does anyone know where that picture of the woman carrying the placard appeared? Google is no help.

tia
las

p.s. Many edits because a quote followed by a close paren kept showing up as an emoji I didn't want.

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LAS14

(13,781 posts)
4. Oh, wow!!! I didn't realize it had already entered the world...
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 02:12 PM
Jan 2018

... of tee shirts!!! That's great.

 

Demit

(11,238 posts)
2. It's an ugly word, always said with ugliness & contempt, the sign notwithstanding.
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 02:02 PM
Jan 2018

The elderly woman with the sign was using it for shock value. I don't think she was intending to bring the word into common usage.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
15. I've little doubt your new, alternative definition is quite the priority to you.
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 04:40 PM
Jan 2018

I've little doubt your new, alternative definition is quite the priority to you. I've even less doubt that you'll soon allege a sincere justification for it.

By their fruits we shall know them...

 

Demit

(11,238 posts)
16. You have a lot of nerve.
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 04:50 PM
Jan 2018

I said the word was ugly. I said that people use it to show contempt. And usually the people who use it are men, to convey how lowly women are in their estimation, nothing but a useful receptacle. What I said has NOTHING to do with female sexuality. Or feminine sexuality, whatever you think that is. You are a very confused individual.

moriah

(8,311 posts)
18. Because reclaiming terms reclaims their power over us.
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 05:38 PM
Jan 2018

Personally, I've found it rather interesting how that word, especially when used specifically at a woman to attempt to insult her by defining her by her anatomy, is almost always used when they can't get access to said anatomy willingly.

There's power there to reclaim, I believe, because we ARE the gender that can bring forth life, the gender that scared them so much by that capacity that they had to control everything about it, and therefore, us and our lives. The gender that rose up and still refuses to be controlled by that power we have.

But I'm known to be a total weirdo.

LAS14

(13,781 posts)
10. Sentence, not phrase. The first sentence in the OP.
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 02:33 PM
Jan 2018

Some woman had a placard with it, and I now see that there are lots of tee shirts available with it. So did that woman with the placard get it started?

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