Well, I tried to cheat and google some insults and swear-words. I came up with one link to a list of 2.500 words, but most of these I never heard in use, though they certainly are insulting. Well, some are, some would need to have a context, because just written, they aren't.
Anyway. Of course we have swearing that's based on female anatomy. >There is the very, very demeaning word, which is actually worse than "cunt", though it means the same. Whore and the likes is used, but I don't think very often anymore, or maybe I just don't live in circles where it is? Mostly, it's used when someone is referring to his girlfriend cheating. Which I'd say is a valid use ;-)
I know thought, that in certain circles "whore" is a word used for ANY girl, no matter her morals, and that's really a very sad thing.
But nonetheless, I mostly have to agree with hells-half-acre that most swearing is based in animals, like "pig", "monkey-ass" and things like it. Also, a passion for "ass" is notable - you can put any fun-thing behind it (ass-face, ass-hole...) and any other kind of fecal words. I personally think they are gender-free.
There is, of course, the anti-gay-vocabulary, most often used by adolescent boys and (sadly, I have to say) persons with migration-backgrounds.
So I won't say we don't have anti-female swearing, but I'm daring to say that our insults are equal-gender-insults. Of course, we have "son of a bitch" (or more accurately, son of a whore) and bastard.
I'm not saying "our insults are better" or anything. I think they are a bit less-female-anatomy-is-bad, because even in the list of 2.500 insults, I found more disgusting fecal-words than anything female-related. They certainly are embarrassingly juvenile.
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Date: 2010-12-10 07:12 pm (UTC)I came up with one link to a list of 2.500 words, but most of these I never heard in use, though they certainly are insulting. Well, some are, some would need to have a context, because just written, they aren't.
Anyway.
Of course we have swearing that's based on female anatomy. >There is the very, very demeaning word, which is actually worse than "cunt", though it means the same. Whore and the likes is used, but I don't think very often anymore, or maybe I just don't live in circles where it is? Mostly, it's used when someone is referring to his girlfriend cheating. Which I'd say is a valid use ;-)
I know thought, that in certain circles "whore" is a word used for ANY girl, no matter her morals, and that's really a very sad thing.
But nonetheless, I mostly have to agree with hells-half-acre that most swearing is based in animals, like "pig", "monkey-ass" and things like it. Also, a passion for "ass" is notable - you can put any fun-thing behind it (ass-face, ass-hole...) and any other kind of fecal words. I personally think they are gender-free.
There is, of course, the anti-gay-vocabulary, most often used by adolescent boys and (sadly, I have to say) persons with migration-backgrounds.
So I won't say we don't have anti-female swearing, but I'm daring to say that our insults are equal-gender-insults.
Of course, we have "son of a bitch" (or more accurately, son of a whore) and bastard.
I'm not saying "our insults are better" or anything. I think they are a bit less-female-anatomy-is-bad, because even in the list of 2.500 insults, I found more disgusting fecal-words than anything female-related.
They certainly are embarrassingly juvenile.