Poll: The "C" word in Videogames

[Trolldor]

Cock is it's reverse. I think cock is pretty socially acceptable comparatively. I have never understood why **** is so offensive. (Primarily to women) Seriously, most women will shrug off being called a ***** (comparing them to a dog) but not a ****. (Comparing them to a vagina.) I would think ***** would be more offensive if I had to pick one. I personally would rather be called a cock than a pig or a dog. But I don't care either way honestly. I learned in like 3rd grade about "sticks and stones".

I am all for free speech. Use **** all the more and maybe desensitize society with the word. My only problem with the word is I don't hear it used that often. So when I do hear someone say it, it sounds like they are trying too hard to sound edgy. This can throw up a red flag for me personally like a couple instances in GTA4.

Speraking of 'socially acceptable'
Cock-up


****-up


Who flinched at what?

 

[chuckman1]

I don't care, I hear it in real life I'm not gonna shoot up a school because a heard a curse word.

 

[mindlesspuppet]

I was unaware that anyone called **** "the c-word"... hmmm.

 

[Jaded Scribe]

As a woman, I've never gotten all that worked up over it. It's just another 4-letter word. I don't think it's any worse than fuck, or anything else.

The only reason that it's such a big deal is because society makes it so. An insult is an insult. Whether "*****" or "ho" or "****" or "pussy" or anything else. It's meant to try to get a rise out of people.

 

[audiblemirage]

Oh, you are talking about ****, when the post said c-word I assumed it referred to cock and was going to tell everybody to lighten up. **** is totally offensive and uncalled for, in other words completely unacceptable in a video game! Honestly, if the developer is willing to take the M rating, they should be able to say whatever the fuck they want however many times they want.

 

[CODE-D]

Where did the word **** come from and how is it even vaguely related to vagina.
Dick/cock seem perfect for what they insinuate but **** sounds like you cut something off a part of something else.

 

[Savagezion]

Where did the word **** come from and how is it even vaguely related to vagina.
Dick/cock seem perfect for what they insinuate but **** sounds like you cut something off a part of something else.

Nobody knows. Seriously. But it suspected to have originated from Germanic language with the same use it has today. (Did a little bit of googling out of curiosity.)
Dick is actually a strange word as I found one person saying that the name came first as an abbreviation for Richard and was only later associated with genitalia.

 

[Canid117]

Why are we calling **** "the C word?" You can cuss profusely on these boards and the mods wont really care.

 

[Plurralbles]

I would like to say that people need to seriously back hte hell away for just a moment and reconsider that it is not hte word at all that is offensive, but hte intent behind it. That intent is where punishment should be aimed at, not simply using the word.

Why are we calling **** "the C word?" You can cuss profusely on these boards and the mods wont really care.

Not true

I was warned a week ago.

 

[thereverend7]

Is **** really such a bad word? Maybe I just haven't taken note of it... Or perhaps the fact that I'm Swedish...

Interestingly enough, I used to talk to a Swedish girl (i live in the US) and she said that her little sister got in big trouble for calling her mom a **** because "**** is a worse word over here, its like saying fuck in the US"

This was at the time that saying fuck was getting popular... so i figured it must be some different system of something over there. lol.

 

[OrokuSaki]

Well aside from free speech and blah blah blah, why would "****" used as an adjective to describe and asshole be any worse than using the word "dick" as an adjective to describe an asshole?

I really don't understand how, when any word can be taken offensively if used in the incorrect tone or context, that people single out individual words as bad.

..... and why is it always elderly people who believe in god? I'm sick of hearing that I'm going to hell for cursing when the bible has NOTHING to say on "foul language" whatsoever.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

To tell the truth, of all the curse words uttered in my presence, **** is one of the rarest. I'm not entirely sure if it is because it is so rarely used but the word is unpleasant to say or hear (whereas twat is somewhat funny). As to the question is it a vulgarity too far, I'd have to say "it depends". Vulgarity must be used correctly (in terms of timing and situation alone), and if one fails to do this the words lose what power their vulgar status gives them. The words "fuck" and "shit" are almost meaningless when used these days to the point that I know people who use them during a verbalized pause (in place of "like" or "um").

 

[Sir Ollie]

****? That's not offensive at all, try meecrob.

I fucking hate meecrob!

 

[Cheesebob]

I think The Darkness was the first game I ever heard it in, although they only used it once. I thought it was awesome.

Because I'm a child like that.

Try playing that with your mum popping in.

I did. My mum laughed and said she liked the game.

You have one cool mum. I have borrow her?

 

[GonzoGamer]

Okay, this is not meant to be an incendiary post, and i'm not trying to offend our lovely lady escapists but the c-word has almost always been considered more offensive than most profanity. The first game that I've noticed using the c-word was GTA IV when Pegorino is getting paranoid and says to Niko "The world is a ****!" which actually made me laugh out loud, cause it was kind of funny. RDR also employs the c-word on occassion. So my question is, is the c-word too far? Is it something that games could do without? I certainly don't believe so, but what do you guys think.

That being said, what games besides these do you remember hearing the c-word in?

Were you offended or indiffernet?

please share.


EDIT:
Don't know why the poll isn't showing up. I promise I'm not retarded.


Just for the record, to clarify if my stance is confusing, I am in total support of free speech, period. So if developers write the word **** into the script of a game, thats fine by me.

Fist off the polls have always been weird on this site but they got weirder when they started doing the capsha thing.

On your subject. The games you mention originated in the UK where the word is treated like any other curse word and is just as often attributed to men as to women. In the US it's almost as taboo as the N word.

In that respect "the c word" is one of my favorite curse words.

 

[GonzoGamer]

Sorry for the double post. The polls aren't the only things acting weird.

 

[Tipsy Giant]

See I think **** has lost it's power and changed it's meaning recently, Pussy replaced it as a vulgar term for .... well pussy, and it now is used as a derogatory term for people in general.
I personally think it's hilarious that people get offended by words, due to the fact that WE as a people invented them, they hold no real power, if you just accept them into culture they lose their strength, just look at the word Damn

I blame the religious people

 

[LogicNProportion]

Words are just words. They only have power when people give them power.

This is why I find the common taboo on curse words to be idiotic to one of the highest degrees. **** should be no more offensive than pussy, queef, dick, cock, etc.

And yes, I DO laugh sometimes at curse words being spoken. I don't use them all the time. My parents have used them around me wince I was a zygote. I remember being 3 and watching Godzilla with my dad, and when something strange happened, we'd look at each other and say:

"What the fuck was that!?"

Then we would laugh.

Good times.