The "C" Word and the "P" Word

The point of banning words is silly, while it does make it "nicer," the point of putting so much negative emphasis on a word is pathetic. Are you going to cry if someone calls you a C or P? How can a word be so harmful? It's the people, people just need to get over the fact that it's just a word.

This issue has been hashed and re-hashed.

The issue with the word 'c***' is that it reduces a woman to nothing more than a degrading word for her genitalia. Not only is it insulting, it is also implicitly deeply sexist.

The others are IMHO FAR less insulting.

If any of you fine gentlemen feel threatened by someone calling you a prick in a thread, please bring it to a moderator's attention, where it will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis.

Anyway... I'm just going to end this one. Sundance can have a peek at it and make a decision for next time the site rules are updated.

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Originally Posted by Billionfold

Unfortunately, that's not going to happen. Apparently, more people are offended by the 'c' word than 'prick'. I'm not going to ask it be censored only because the 'c' word is. Although if enough people said they were offended by it, I'm sure it would be. Steve made a good point, though. Even in it's vulgar context, 'prick' isn't nearly as offensive as the 'c' word.

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I was sitting here trying to figure out how to word what I wanted to say and you just took the words out of my mouth. I would like to add that look at other forms of media. You will hear prick used on network TV but will you ever hear the C word on network TV? No.

Thank you Steve and Billionfold for helping explain it. This thread is close to being closed.

This thread IS closed.