The C-word has been used from Chaucer to Trainspotting, but this week has shown for Americans it’s still the ultimate taboo
Samantha Bee apologised for calling Ivanka Trump a “feckless cunt” on her television show. Amid widespread backlash, State Farm and Autotrader have suspended ads from Bee’s TBS show. On Friday, Donald Trump called on ABC to fire the comedian “for the horrible language used on her low-ratings show”.
Aside from the debate over whether Bee was wrong to use the word to describe the first daughter, it’s worth asking why the C-word is considered to be the ultimate expression of “horrible language”. Particularly in America, a country which elected a man president after he boasted about grabbing women “by the pussy”, is the word “cunt” so terribly shocking?
from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2xze39L
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