Alex: As an English major, have you heard...

[lizard]

of the flap surrounding the U. of Colorado female president defending the use of the word "cunt" because it was a term of endearment back in Chaucer's day?

 

[xfer]

haha, yes, although i don't think it was via English-major channels. although maybe the only reason i was surfing the site that mentioned it is because of my literaryiciousness.

i'm actually not hugely informed about it! did you just read a piece on it you can link?

 

[lizard]

http://cbs.sportsline.com/collegefootball/story/7425920
I think its safe to say if it was a guy and not a matronly middleaged woman, he would be fired.

 

[xfer]

I don't see anything wack about what she said. She just said it is POSSIBLE to use as a non-offensive term, which is I guess true, but never said or meant to imply that the stupid rapist thug football player meant it in the Chaucerly sense.

 

[lizard]

well it does show a wonderfully retarded sense of political correctness. she had to know what to say even if she didn't agree with it, or even if in Chaucer's day it was cool.

 

[xfer]

i'm going to call my boss a "fucking cocksucker" and then say it can be used as a term of endearment.