While you're working on Book Number Two, consider this one Book Number Two-and-a-Half...to be discussed whenever relevant :)As writer Inga Muscio points out, the old children’s rhyme, “Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt you,” really isn’t all that true. Words are powerful weapons, and 20th centure English is full of words that have been used to taunt and wound other people. Words like “nigger” or “kike” or “wop” or “spic.” None of these words have been banned from the airwaves as an obscenity, although they aren’t usually heard unless somebody uses a disclaimer or they’re being explained or reclaimed in this era of political correctness. In her new book, Inga Muscio is reclaiming a word that women often hear thrown at them as an epithet. It’s a word describing women’s
genitalia, a word that could get us in trouble with the FCC if we use it on the radio. This of George Carlin’s seven dirty words. But just as many black Americans are using the word “nigger” as a term of empowerment, Muscio believes women should use this word to describe themselves.—Marcie Sillman Visit her site: http://www.ingalagringa.com/
