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in a drunken brawl in a dark
     alley.
    A “cunt” could be a serious weather condition:
    “Next on Nightline , an exclusive report on the devastation in Kansas when last night’s thunder cunt,
     with winds exceeding 122 miles an hour, ripped through the state.”
    Or a monster truck:
    “The City Arena is proud to present the Coors Crush ’Em Demolition Round-Up competition,
     where Randy Sam’s Beast of Burden will challenge Mike Price’s undefeated Raging Cunt in the 666 barrel jump.”
     
    Moving from phonetics to etymology, “vagina” originates from a word meaning sheath
     for a sword.
     
    Ain’t got no vagina.

Cuntist Mystique
    I came across the power of “cunt” quite accidentally. After writing an article for
     a newspaper, I typed in “word count,” but left out the “o.” My editor laughingly pointed
     out the mistake. I looked at the two words together and decided “Word Cunt” seemed
     like a nice title for a woman writer. As a kind of intraoffice byline, I started typing
     “Word Cunt” instead of “word count” on all my articles.

    The handful of people who saw hard copies of my work reacted strongly and asked why
     I chose to put these two words on my articles. After explaining my reasoning to editorial
     assistants, production magis, proofreaders and receptionists, I started wondering
     about the actual, decontextualized power of “cunt.”
    I looked up “cunt” in Barbara G. Walker’s twenty-five-year research opus, The Women’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets , and found it was indeed a title, back in the day. “Cunt” is related to words from
     India, China, Ireland, Rome and Egypt. Such words were either titles of respect for
     women, priestesses and witches, or derivatives of the names of various goddesses:
    In ancient writings, the word for “cunt” was synonymous with “woman,” though not in
     the insulting modern sense. An Egyptologist was shocked to find the maxims of Ptah-Hotep
     “used for ‘woman’ a term that was more than blunt,” though its indelicacy was not
     in the eye of the ancient beholder, only in that of the modern scholar. (Walker, 1983,
     197)
    The words “bitch” and “whore” have also shared a similar fate in our language. This
     seemed rather fishy to me. Three words which convey negative meanings about women,
     specifically, all happen to have once had totally positive associations about women,
     specifically.
    Of the three, “cunt” garners the most powerful negative reaction.
    How come?
    This was obviously a loaded question to be asking myself, ’cause the answer evolved
     into quite the life-consuming project.
     
    According to every woman-centered historical reference I have read—from M. Esther
     Harding to bell hooks—the containment of woman’s sexuality was a huge priority to
     emerging patrifocal religious and economic systems.
    Cunts were anathema to forefather types. Literally and metaphorically, the word and
     anatomical jewel presided at the very nexus of many earlier religions which impeded
     phallic power worship. In Western civilization, forefather types practiced savior-centered
     religions, such as Catholicism. Springing forth from a very real, very fiscal fear
     of women and our power, eventually evolving into sexual retardation and womb envy,
     a philosophy and social system based on destruction was culled to thriving life. One
     of the more well-documented instances of this destruction-oriented consciousness is
     something called the Inquisition. It lasted for over five hundred years. That is how long it took the Inquisition to rend serious damage to the collective
     spirit of non-savior-centered religious worshippers.
    , The Inquisition justified the—usually sadistic—murder, enslavement or rape of every
     woman, child and man who practiced any form of spiritual belief which did not honor
     savior-centered phallic power worship.
    Since the beginning of time, most cultures honored forces which were