According to this study, women don’t want to betray the tribe by using words like cunt so liberally, and they seem disappointed in other women who do. As one twenty-six-year-old participant named Kelly said, “Women may be seen as ‘letting the side down’ if they engage in the use of certain terms.” It would be a sign that they hadn’t really thought about what the word meant. Women don’t expect men to know better or try to understand the potential harm of what they’re saying, but they do expect this of other women.
