Prick, dick and cock are crappy insults. For someone who is foolish, irritating, and assholish. Cunt is a BADASS insult! Pricks, dicks and cocks may be mildly annoying, but they are ten a penny. They are nothing. They cannot even piss off with success and conviction. Cunt at least has some fucking teeth! (he he) Dicks are laughable. Cunts are the bond villain of the genitally-centred insults. It also has a nice abrupt sound akin to verbally stabbing someone in the face. that shit has power. male genital centred insults are just useless little ballsacks.

I know many will not agree with me, and I do not use the word lightly. but there it is.

Yeah, but that is not the context in which it was used here. It was obviously not meant as a compliment, and therefore served to reinforce the power of the insult.

I am another lurker who has never posted a comment but who regularly refers wayward women and girls to IBTP when they are feeling at a loss and confused about the current state of affairs. When I say, ‘IBTP’, they say, ‘huh?’. So, I inform them about the wonderful online realm of IBTP where, it seems, most people ‘get it’ and they can find solace.

However, there is a small part of me that feels somehow the nasties won this round. That the inner-critics that constitute internalized patriarchy were hard at work during the ‘cuntalina episode’ and these inner-critics spewed forth that which had been ingrained in them – using the word ‘cunt’ is the lowest of the low.

I would argue that MEN decided that being referred to as part of a woman’s anatomy is insulting; I don’t believe that it is – I think my parts are FABULOUS.

How is it that a group so enlightened, as the Blametariat, can FALL DOWN so quickly due to language. Are we really only as united as the language we use reflects? What happened to ‘reclaiming’ the word and USING IT OURSELVES to take back the ‘power’ of the insult? ‘We’re here; we’re queer’ ring a bell?

Regardless, I’m glad you are continuing to post and encourage you to keep doing WHAT YOU WANT – it’s your damn blog after all. Screw the critics and never write for love; write for yourself. If nature crap is where you’re at, super; I’m still reading and will continue to do so as I have for the last 3 years.

Warmest wishes from a faithful Canadian Cuntalina!

The basic C word is one I have used, albeit sparingly, in situations where no other will do. While I do more than my share of blaming, I simply cannot come to terms with the idea that having scary female parts absolves a person from using her brain and exercising her free will. Like the majority of the human race is suffering at all times from Stockholm syndrome and therefore each individual member of that majority is not responsible if she is narrow-minded, nasty, hypocritical and a general waste of human flesh. Not buying it, sorry. I really liked the comment from wendyann. She said it very well.

While I appreciate your writing style no matter what the subject, I do hope you do not concentrate only on the life of domestic animals and Texas vermin. I think there are many of us who mostly lurk, and perhaps do not express our deep gratitude for your keen mind and independent thought, served up to us through the miracle of the intertubes on a regular basis, often enough to counteract the naysayers.

Once I stumbled across a single post here, I immediately went back and voraciously consumed the archives for weeks. Unlike some of your readers, I value the commentariat immensely. Even the comments that piss me off, because they all help to organize my thoughts and force me to rethink my positions on everything–almost as much as your posts do.

Anyway, to make a short comment long; glad to hear you’re sticking around–in whatever form you choose. And thank you for all you’ve done already. A voice as strong, intelligent and witty as yours is a welcome diversion to even the worst of my days.