On Nov 3, 2007, at 1:09 PM, Michael Pollak wrote:
> I think this is why this British term doesn't fly in an American
> context.
> It's the flipside of our having no class consciousness.
The feminization of Kerry in the '04 campaign was a class insult, even though Bush was less of an athlete and just as upper crust.
I don't really get what Brits mean by "cunt." There's a line in the Sex Pistols documentary, one of them saying, "We were the first to call each other cunts." Which is hard to believe, but in any case, were they using it as a synonym for faggot? I don't know. Some native Brit speakers here who could enlighten?
And what does Liz Phair mean when she says "I'm a real cunt in spring"?
Doug