like "asshole," but as to US usage it's as sexist as n------ is racist.

And there are much better terms than that. Besides, vaginas rock!!

some are quite good.

There are, however, many other “C” words which can be applied to TFG.

I’ll start: Coward.

.. go for it.

They bring a lot of benefits to the world.

Call him a TURD maybe.

I'd rather call him a dickhead. Same idea, different gender.

NEVER.

It is (and has been for decades) the worst slur for women in the US and a lot of us here had to fight back against that word being thrown at us (and used against us) by very misogynistic, hateful individuals- angry at women gaining strides in the workplace -- during at least certain times in our lives. Younger women may never have experienced that, but I damn well have. So have most of my women colleagues. IMO, if you would use that term then you would not think twice about using the "N" word toward African Americans or any number of slurs toward people of other races and ethnicities or those horrible terms toward members of the LGBTQ community. 'Asshole' is universal. These group member-associated terms are not.

No. Just NO.

She's our representative - I've heard my wife and sisters use that term in reference to her.

whom. The question was about usage on DU, where it is not acceptable.

Just an observation: women using patriarchal slurs against other women, no matter how awful those women are, is depressing.

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My wife and sisters all vote Democrats and are well-educated with Masters and Doctorates. I find people who are against free-expression depressing.

friend. I very clearly stated that I do not care what words people use in their homes. I said nothing about stopping their free expression. But funny that you would use that term to criticize MY free expression.

sailor.

"Profanity is the common crutch of the conversational cripple." --- David Keuck

....refer to it as the "C-word."

I use standard expletives all the time - I'm not prude - but not those used to express hatred to a particular group. (We all know what those words are.)

Both c*** and d*** as sexist terms. There are plenty of ways to insult people without reference to their sex organs.

the years.

Understand, I have no problem with somebody calling me that. I just gush about it being one of the original titles of the Goddess. Shuts them up. But the word, in current usage, is an intentional sexist slur, so it truly has no place here.