Cunt is one of my favorite invectives, hell, one of my favorite words, period. My love for it is so rampant that I sometimes forget not to use it in public. Although it's just a casual profanity on the level of "hell" or "damn" in Great Britain, some people in this country tend to get quite offended. I almost dropped the word casually into a conversation with two people, one of whom I knew very well and knew wouldn't get offended, the other I hardly knew and didn't know what kind of reaction she would have (FWIW, both were female). I refrained for the sake of civil discourse (see, I am capable of displaying tact sometimes...). The last time I can remember using the word in public and getting a negative reaction was the night Sarah Palin resigned as governor of Alaska. I was at a bar, and the bartender remarked that she hadn't given a reason for resigning yet. I responded with some variation of "Maybe she realized she was too much of a dumb cunt to be in such a position of power", or something, and the woman sitting a few seats down gave me one of the nastiest looks I have ever received. I also once called a girl a stupid cunt when I was fourteen, and she gave me a lecture on how it was a "hate word" and how she would no longer be associating with me if I continued to use it. No great loss there. Like I said, she was a stupid cunt. So, cunt. Awesome word or what? | 
