| Monday, January 22, 2001 |
 | Although artistically justified, readers should be aware that the following post contains harsh language. Rather a lot of it, in fact.
Speaking of El Tel, amazingly there appears to be only one document on the Internet containing the phrase "Terry Pratchett is a c*nt". I find this a hideous indictment of the entire medium.
This led to an interesting little exchange between myself and Matt, whose weblog is incidentally sheathed in a pine-fresh new skin as of today. In the auditorium waiting for the Magnetic Fields to start.
Matt had a bone to pick.
"Why didn't you just say 'Terry Pratchett is a cunt', Dan? Then there would have been two sites with that wording."
"Well," said I, thinking aloud, "As you know, I'm not particularly averse to causing offence, but there is something about 'cunt' specifically which I always feel a bit dodgy about. I think it may be the implicit violence in the term, which I don't think you can separate from a certain misogyny. I mean, a lot of words are pretty much decontextualised now - 'fuck', for example, I can quite happily use as an emotional sound effect without anything but a sort of metanymic shadow of the penis-and-orifice connections which make up its primary meaning. With 'cunt'....I don't know, isn't there still a closeness between the descriptive and the pejorative that....everyone's looking at us, Matt."
"No, everyone's looking at you."
Still, their own fault for eavesdropping.
Meanwhile, I feel the "Terry Pratchett is a cunt" webring coming on - a series of sites linked only by the fact that, often utterly without context, that sentence occurs and recurs.
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