Better call this entry 'Friday afternoon work dreadfulness' in order to stay work-safe

[westernind]

Appalling office politics taking place. I hates it, I hates it I do. But I'm guessing it happens wherever office moves are planned.

I also hate bullying managers. The technique used by this particular specimen is to state an assumption as a fact. If you point out that it's an assumption, he waits a few minutes, then states it again as a fact. When you challenge it again, he then labels you as unhelpful. Personally I think he suffers from being stressed and insecure in his job but I'm buggered if I'm letting it mess up my priorities.

And now, a rant on terminology which is not-worksafe. No, I mean it. Not work-safe.

Those closer to me will know that, inspired by the Vagina Monologues, I've been doing my bit to reclaim the word CUNT; if someone uses the word as a derogatory noun (invariably to describe a male person) in my presence, it triggers a happy-dreamy muttered free-association spielette: lovely rooound cunt, furry cunt, broown, friendly-vowelled, cunt-cunt-cunt, positive word for female genitalia. La la la. "Use words for the appropriately gendered genitalia to describe the lowlives of the relevant gender", is wot I sa. Seems only fair.

Cunts aside, ("Cunts aside! cuntcuntcunt, yo ho ho!") another term has recently crawled into my field of view.

Cocksucker. What's going on here, then? Why is 'cocksucker' a term of abuse? Don't you want your cocks sucked*? Isn't it a Good Thing?

Yeah, there's an element of disingenuity. I have a perfectly-formed opinion on why it's a term of abuse; I've never heard it used to describe a woman. So, I'd be interested to hear a defence. Is there anyone out there who's prepared to argue that 'cocksucker' is value-free and not at all homophobic?

Cocksucker! Let's reclaim the word!

One last thing. I could turn the comments function off. But I'm not gonna. Play nice, no overt abuse please. But do feel free to use the word COCKSUCKER as a term of praise and positive concordances. Or even CUNT. :-)

* this rhetorically addressed to those of you as have cocks not quims. Incidentally, 'quimsucker' is a neologism as yet, I would argue, free of negative connotations.


Can you tell it's Friday afternoon?

Comments

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[westernind.livejournal.com]

IMHO this is the real reason Socrates was executed by the citizens of Athens. Because every time they went down to the forum, this mad old man with a long beard fixed them with a beady eye and started asking awkward questions. Ver' uncomfortable.

I have a laundry basket poised, but don't want to pin down any butteflies, and also butterfly-mindedly lose interest in dropping the basket on LJ... are you and sq'Amy house-bound (qua egg-bound?) at the weekend, or possibly feedable on Sunday? Or we could visit you.

As forbinproject and jimfer will testify, I'm simian-negative; thus deliberately not enquiring about the gibbon.

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[agentinfinity.livejournal.com]

Doing something on Sunday would be cool. The recently turned naff weather has left us with a bit of spare time.

We seem to have misplaced your phone number rather craply. Will email or summat tomorrow.

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[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

You're not a gibbon, gibbon is slang in my family and with some friends. It's basically a friendly way of calling someone a clumsy oaf for example:

"You stood on my scale model of the Spruce Goose ?! You bloody gibbon!

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[ephraim.livejournal.com]

You have a scale model of the spruce goose? Cooool!!!!

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[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

Nah, that's just what I call my penis...and just like the real thing it looks very impressive but can only stay up for fourteen seconds BOOM BOOM.

What am this morning, Les Dawson ?