Every Canadian Premier, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, signed a joint statement against President Trump. Except Alberta's Danielle Smith. She refused to sign.

https://lemm.ee/post/60020849

Every Canadian Premier, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, signed a joint statement against President Trump. Except Alberta's Danielle Smith. She refused to sign. - lemm.ee

The French newspaper Le Monde tries to explain to its readers what is going on.

dani smith is a traitorous cunt!

So many places to go after Danielle smith. Do we have to make her sex one of them? She is a horrible leader, a liar, traitorous, vacuous, purveyor of bullshit culture war, climate change denier, maga sycophant, incompetent shitforbrains, and worst of humanity

You can say a lot without mentioning her sex

He never mentioned her sex. Cunts are gender neutral.
Maybe is Australia. Next guys calls her a bitch. Just saying hate her cause she’s horrible. No need for misogyny
Don’t be a cunt
See? it’s entirely different when you call a guy a cunt vs when you call a woman a cunt. Because it’s not gender neutral
He didn’t even know if you were a woman or a man. You just made his point.
I’m trying to figure out if I’m having conversations with 14 yr old edgelords. Is his point that derogatory comments to women are cool, or that misogynistic terms are cool regardless who their aimed at? Are racially insensitive terms ok too?

Look, I don’t mean to antagonize you but you’re looking at it in a very American-centric (and quasi-chauvinistic) way.

In other countries the c-word doesn’t have the same connotation as in the US. You are assuming American culture, and its concepts, are universal. They’re not.

There’s nothing inherently wrong in the c-word and the n-word, but it’s the context where those words got to be used that made them so repugnant. Since the n-word was mostly a US thing, its taboo meaning passed over to all variants of English. The c-word though, was already used in other variants and didn’t have the same bad connotation it does in the US. So it kept being used in a different way.

Trying to force the American meaning on other English speakers comes at best as ignorant and, at worst, chauvinistic. I don’t think you have bad intentions since you clearly don’t understand how a word can have very different meanings in different cultures. But now you know.

I mean, it’s a Canadian sub talking about Canadian politicians. It may be different if we were talking about Aussie politics. I’ve been to Australia, lived in nz for a year, I’ve used the term with buddies pretty often.

It is different when you’re speaking about a woman in power (awful woman in power) and take all her horrid aspects and boil them down to a demeaning misogynist term. There are a million different insults that can be thrust upon her. Why does it have to be one that means vagina. Whether it’s been appropriated or not by other cultures, here in Canada it is misogynistic and is interpreted so by nearly every woman here

“Whether it’s been appropriated or not by other cultures”

Uh? Englishmen appropriated English culture now?

Aussie vs can or us. Yes different cultures
How often do you call your mother a cunt?
Lol, I’m not even dignifying that with an answer. I’ve made my point.
Right. Simple question. Total cop out. Why doesn’t word cunt in the context of your mother make you uncomfortable? I don’t think you actually made a point
Because I wouldn’t insult my mother (or father) with ANY swear word.

I assure you that I’m Canadian and I say Donald Trump is a miserable cunt all the time. Because he is.

Some people are cunts. Some cunts are men and some cunts are women. Both Pierre Pollievre and Danielle Smith are cunts. They’re miserable people that never say anything positive and seem to derive joy from fucking things up for everyone. They’re miserable cunts.