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Originally posted by purse junkie
"Bitch" is always sexist and I hardly ever use it. Used against a man, it's a negative implication that the guy is like a woman--horrors! Used against a woman, it's almost always a punishment for someone who steps out of her proper place.
"C--t" is even worse and I never, ever, ever use it except about...well, she knows who she is.
My college roommate had a habit of yelling "TWAT!" at the top of her lungs. This was disconcerting to those who thought that (1) it was unnecessary at a women's college to announce that you had one or (2) that it was an insult directed at someone specific or (3) that it was a request for some action from anyone in hearing distance.
"Asshole" I always thought of as gender-neutral. Right now though I prefer "skank."
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"Twat" - that's a wierd one. I don't like it - it has a lousy sound. Its also one of those low end names that you'll hear from some creepy dude watching television inside a gas station (not the gas station attendant, the creepy mulleted cat who just hangs out ther smoking butts in Thin Lizzy concert t shirt). The worst of thess low end ghenital names is "snatch" - that one seems to only come from, dirty old men. Another is "gash" - that one comes from angry fraternity guys who just "got the Heisman" from a chick (got her back to the room, but she wouldn't fuck).
My favorite female pseudo-cuss word is "cooter". I heard a friend use the term to refer to female genitalia a few years back and thought it was hysterical - very rural, silly and harmless. He started using it among our female friends and now they all refer to their own genitalia as "cooters".
