In all the endless masses of coverage of Andrew Johns' racist slur, Timana Tahu's dignified withdrawal, and all the other fallout in the leadup to the Great Big Rugby League Game on Wednesday night (apparently Johns is "shattered"; diddums), I've not yet seen anyone mention that "black cunt", used as a term of abuse, is not
only a racist slur.
Mmm I was just commenting to Paul that football seemed to be moving faster on racism than it did on sexism... And I didn't actually know the details of the 'racist slur' in question.
ReplyDeleteIt's just offensive on SO MANY levels.
ReplyDeleteThank you for, as so often, encapsulating it perfectly.
ReplyDeleteWot Tigtog said. Of course.
ReplyDeleteNicely said PC. Andrew Johns should just retire from the media.
ReplyDeleteYears ago, in a fairly deep rural part of NSW, I heard a bushie redneck of our acquaintance describing someone as 'an ankle'.
ReplyDeleteThinkaboudit! Thinkaboudit!
An ankle is 'three feet lower than a cunt'.
He was an unregenerate MCP, so the only thing to do was laugh.
Gae, in Callala Bay
I hope Andrew Johns parents, friends, children, work colleagues let him know what a despicable creep he is.
ReplyDeleteI hope nobody else saw the appalling comment I've just deleted. Anonymous, you are one evil son of a bitch.
ReplyDeleteIt did pop up in my email subscription last night, PC. Blogger's comment moderation options are rubbish, aren't they?
ReplyDeleteYeah, they are, and to date I've gone on deciding against moderation because I like the immediacy of comments threads and there is so seldom a problem. But Blogger is so easy (and cheap!) in all other resepcts that I've never been tempted to branch out -- got no aptitude or skillz for the tech/design side of blogging!
ReplyDeleteThe wordpress.com blogs are just as cheap and give you a few more admin options for comment controls with lots of built-in templates so you don't have to design/tech anything. The mechanics of creating actual posts are much the same there.
ReplyDeleteI've been disturbed how many women I would think of as feminists use cunt as a term of abuse. The other day I was explaining that I don't shop at a particular store because of who owns it. A female friend said "why, is he a cunt". I responded that I wouldn't it compare an abusive, misogynist man to something I rather like.
ReplyDeleteShe started getting angry at me, saying something about how I shouldn't use cunt to describe a woman's anatomy, didn't I know it was a term of abuse. I was about to point her to a few centuries worth of etymology when she got distracted by something.