Midwesterners sweatin' thinking you're talking about banning the word

Yeah let Dirt_Owl speak their native tongue!

You're god dammed right it is

I will say cracker whenever i damn well please

I'm a proud removed and I'm tired of being censored

^I'm^ ^allowed^ ^to^ ^say^ ^it^ ^don't^ ^ban^ ^me^

Who cares about white australians

Reddit had a very long era where lots and lots of "I just watched Tennant's Doctor Who and I need to LARP as a kind English gentlesir now" types that also really, really wanted an excuse to say a locally-recognized-as-misogynistic slur but with an imported excuse for why it's not a misogynistic slur while still using it as a misogynistic slur.

Cornfed nerd from Ohio: "U fuckin wot, m8? I swear on me mum that you don't understand that when I say c--t I'm being congenial and everyone says it and I say it to me mum all the time. So stop being a c--t like Literally Who Anita Sarkeesian and Literally Who Zoe Quinn you c--t!"

There's a slur filter?

Manually typing removed to obfuscate the word and cause confusion

This is a sacrifice I'm willing to make to prevent yanks from appropriating Australian """culture""" (day drinking before voting, overpriced cocaine, the C word, Hills Hoist)

In the UK it's not a gendered slur either. It's basically a more severe version of 'dickhead', but one you cannot really use in day-to-day chat depending on regional dialect. There is the class divide mentioned below, but working-class people do not use it as a whole, and it's heavily dependent on where you're from (e.g., in East London and Cockney I'd say it's more acceptable than in Essex), and, I suppose, what part of the working-class you are from not in a material sense but in a cultural sense. I have found that more ambitious/education-focused working-class people find it more tabboo than others, maybe a sort of subconscious class mimicking towards those whom they desire to be part of?

IDK though, that is just an anecdotal observation without much supporting evidence.

But in British English I do not think it has the gendered connotations of b----, for instance. Not at all. While b- is most commonly, albeit not universally, used for women (by both women and men), c--- has no gender boundaries with regards to the recipient and has lost all contact with the origins of the word (of course, nobody is using it as a synonym for "vagina" these days, at least, if so it is very rare and seen universally as crass and gross).

I actually agree that it's a completely different word from a cultural standpoint, and I don't find it offensive when an Australian says it most of the time. That said, there is nothing more obnoxious than hearing a reddit-brained American try to drop it to be edgy, thinking they sound worldy. It's a worse version of Americans saying "wanker", though that might actually be more lame.

Cheeky bugger

no more half measures walter

Good

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People here in Scotland use it all the time and I have used it plenty too. It's a gender neutral term