F**k

[Nearly Sane]

There is a view that women are seen as more powerful, and thus cunts are actually feared by men, as life-bearers, and of course, something they desire seriously.    For the life of me, I can't recall who says this, except Karen Horney, who is not very current.   There is also breast envy and womb envy, which may be a factor.

Now I've remembered that some of Freud's followers began to report this, and he was not pleased, as he had put forward the idea of phallic superiority.    But he should have realized that the unconscious often inverts things anyway.

I suppose the whole things illustrates that no matter the intent sex and the thought of it is not something we cope with awfully well.

[Nearly Sane]

Found the programme diverting but flawed. There was no real challenge to the idea that we shouldn't say/write  things simply because some one is offended, which as the blanket position that was put would lead to censoring a lot of views. Most of the points were already covered in the article, and the whole flow of words being differently seen at different times/cultures seemed glossed over.