Oh my god that is so disgusting. Women are such kittens! 

posted by McD at 09:46AM CST on December 14

Speaking of kittens, over on the Savage Lovecast (Dan Savage's podcast version of his column; NSFW, duh) there has been a hilarious campaign against using the word 'pussy' to mean someone cowardly, timorous or just plain (ahem) pussillanimous. See, a pussy is a strong, lifegiving complex of muscles that can do amazing things and withstand a lot of punishment. So, the argument goes, we should all *strive* to be pussies. If someone is instead failing to take action just because they're afraid, they should be labelled a scrotum -- a highly sensitive bundle of nerves that does little to protect and retreats at any sign of trouble. We'll see how this goes; it's not the first time Dan Savage has been on the vanguard of a linguistic revolution...

(Side note: I didn't realize that official victory in the Santorum War had been achieved: his actual senate biography has fallen off even the first page of links. Zowie.) 

posted by mrflip at 10:14AM CST on December 14

Could that also be due to his loss in the last election? 

posted by NanoCindy at 10:48AM CST on December 14

Sorry, it is far too valuable phonetically to give up as a curse, since the amount of emphasis given to the spitting "PU" sound can be arbitrarily great (no one knows this better than the russians).

Let that pussy Dan Savage just imagine a skittish indoor housecat every time the word is used. 

posted by McD at 09:35AM CST on December 15

P.S. Kittens was what came to mind when I was trying to think of an alternative to "pigs" 

posted by McD at 09:36AM CST on December 15

Nina Blackburn: But this song is called "Come Pet The P.U.S.S.Y."
Ice Cold: Come Pet The P.U.S.S.Y., Yeah. But I do say P-U-S-S-Y in the song because I set it up like that. Like the letters, like an "analagram."
NB: Anagram?
IC: An anagram, you know what I am saying? So it's like P is political,U-unrest,S-stabilizes,another S-society,Y-yeeeaa-ahh.
NB: No.
IC: Yeah. What we are saying is, if we want to change this madness that's going on in our community and in our world, then we got to step to the pussy. Step to this ideology. We got to embrace the pussy. You understand? Embracing the... Have you ever had your pussy embraced? I mean, has someone came up and just... embraced that motherfucker? 

posted by mrflip at 03:35PM CST on December 16