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I hate the word 'Consumer' or I mockingly call it 'CONSOOMER'. Because that's to imply everyone in the world is just cattle, but with wallets. We're no longer customers. We're consumers now. And a consumer's purpose is to consume shit, whatever is put out there. Got money? Shut up and consume, it's what corporate interests and capitalism itself thrive on. Consume and consume.

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[โ€“] Classy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah cunt is really a very crude word, isn't it? I curse plenty, probably more than I ought to, and I don't generally use the word at all unless I'm describing a miserably shitty person. I'm sure my American heritage has an impact on my conditioning toward that word but I always grew up with it being a taboo word, even sometimes over slurs. You "don't say" cunt. I feel like the term has softened these last ten years or so, or maybe I'm just becoming more comfortable with it.

I still wouldn't ever use it sexually. It just feels degrading.

A vagina is a medical term. A pussy is a sexual vagina. Cunt? Almost feels like you're reducing the sex to something that somehow removes the woman from it. Like "a sexual plaything". I don't know, it's hard to describe.

[โ€“] dragoness@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You represent your username nicely here and I agree with your sentiment.