lynsangelic1 ◾ Bad, *bad* Presidential candidate (Reply)

From Wiki:

Presidential Candidate John McCain was heavily criticised for using this word ["cunt"] to refer to his wife, Cindy McCain in 1992. He used the word during a verbal exchange with his wife. Cindy playfully twirled McCain's hair and said, "You're getting a little thin up there." McCain's face reddened, and he responded, "At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt."

First of all, I ended up on the "cunt" article on Wikipedia the usual way I end up on random articles - through ardous clicking through articles and checking stuff out for the fun of it. I was checking out the release date of Metallica's new album and then looked at the articles for their back catalogue - One of which is the Cunning Stunts performance DVD. This led to spoonerisms, which led to cunt. Just so you know, I don’t look up the dictionary, circle ‘penis’ and laugh. Though I did used to look up swear words in French – Who didn’t? That’s education.

I'm usually a bit squeamish about that word, only using it when really, very, uncontrollably angry. And that's hardly ever. I really dislike the frequent usage: using it to refer to a friend or using it every third word - as is quite common here. It's so visceral and powerful - but that's probably just the way I choose to perceive it. Words and taboo words are such funny things. I’ve used it in writing before.

Secondly, I'm glad to see articles from April and May of this year about this McCain incident - but I really thought it would have made the press over here. Maybe it did and I’ve been completely missing it?

Anyway – Should the Obama campaign go negative, surely this should be the first poster –

McCain: Called his wife a cunt.

Actually I’m going to go make that in paint.

Back. And done.

Fun fun, oh paint is fun.

And now a fun fact to draw a line under all this seriousness: Bernard Manning first said “cunt” on television with the line "They say you are what you eat. I'm a cunt."

That's enough of that.

And item 2 on the agenda involves some LJ politics – in case anyone’s interested. Tis only LJ after all. But raggedy_man is on a one man crusade to get in touch with the elected rep of LJ users but it’s proving difficult.

This entry on stupid free brought my attention to the escapade. I don’t particulary have anything to say to the rep – who I voted for as well – but I’m sure many do and I commend raggedy_man for getting off his ass and doing something. He’s created userdom_counts, similar in concept to fandom_counts and I’d join if you want to help with minimal effort.

That's all dear friends. I have distracted myself quite enough for one evening.

EDIT: Because my format keeps screwing itself up. Why why why? Doesn't like links, keeps telling me 'no such user', moves text around... I've tried in IE and Firefox. If it's not me, then it's LJ. Damnit, where's my rep?