Rhymes with Hunt

Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues, said this about NBC's recent apology for airing Jane Fonda's utterance of the word "c**t":

"Let me just say something about that word," she said. "The whole point of the play is to reclaim that word, and to make that word beautiful, and to make that word powerful, and not denigrating, and not ugly."

I completely agree. The word "c**t" has not bothered me since I was a shy, repressed pianist in a little church in the woods. Once I became a mother and a feminist, I wondered what the fuss was about. For some reason, there are dozens of socially acceptable words to describe the almighty penis, but hardly anything suitable to say on television - or in any polite society, for that matter - about what Ensler has called "down there".

Here are a few thoughts about the origin of the C-word, according to takeourword.com:

Cunt is believed to derive from a Germanic root kunton "female genitalia" which also gave rise to Old Norse kunta (ancestor of Norwegian and Swedish dialectical kunta and Danish dialectical kunte), Old Frisian, Middle Low German and Middle Dutch kunte, and the English doublet quaint. The word wasn't always considered derogatory... the proto-Germanic root of cunt is ku- "hollow place".

Therapy for the day: cuntcuntcuntcuntcuntcuntcuntcuntcuntcuntcuntcuntcuntcuntcuntcunt

Gosh, I feel better.

NTD