2009 10 27

I was telling a friend about my "overheard" experience while I was on my way home from the store last evening. There was a couple, young, walking the opposite way; and, as if most folks I know were saying "you idiot", the young man called the girl a lying cunt, and she ignored it like it was nothing.

Language evolves, people evolve, and things that were once considered highly offensive are now commonplace. It's good, in a way, to see people not be quite so uptight about certain aspects of language; however, I don't know a single female who'd take being called a cunt without putting up a fight.

I don't know if it's a function of class alone - it seems more generational in a way - but when did something so crass become so 'normal', bland, unaffecting?