On 8/11/06, stevertigo vertigosteve@yahoo.com wrote:
--- Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
Quoting you-know-who, "Twat is a vulgar term for the human vagina, which can also be used as a derogatory epithet."
Aye, but amended to that should be "...toward women."
Not in my experience; it is used as a degoratory epithet towards both genders. It is probably used /more/ towards men, in fact; perhaps because the tone of it is percieved as different directed towards a woman, who would possess the body part in question. Whether it is more offensive towards a man or towards a woman is beyond my giving-a-damn to determine; I'd imagine, like many similar insults, the difference is in nature rather than degree.
(returning to your regularly scheduled programming ...)
-Matt