If there is one word, one word in the entire modern English language that will probably make most, if not all, women feel filthy and subhuman, it's the word Cunt.

He's called you an witch and a bitch and you've called him a cock-sucking motherfucking bastard from hell and he's out of ammo. He's in fear of losing his masculinity [which we ALL know is far more important than love, money or sex for that matter], so he says, "You stupid cunt."

That's it, buster.

Slap on the handcuffs, call the attorneys, baby. That fight is going way, waaay below the belt.

It's quite something though - the power that word has. After all, it is nothing but a word. Doesn't bruise, doesn't leave a stain. A one-syllablic word with so so so much power. For one thing, fuck [fucker, fucktard, motherfucker, etc.] , on the other hand, has successfully replaced the word 'the' in my [and most of the people around me] dictionary.

Then of course, bitch lost its touch ages ago when women adopted it as a feminist slang, a boast: "I'm such a bitch!" The once-derogatory terms 'whore' and 'slut' are thrown around like they're nothing - blame it on hip hop trash. And you can always trust me to call my friends Adidas whores and vintage sluts.

But you see, you'll never hear someone call herself a cunt. Try it, replace the word bitch in the sentence mentioned earlier with cunt: "I'm such a cunt!"

It doesn't work, does it.

I personally don't like the word cunt. Neither do I like the words vagina, pussy and whatthefuck else [I could go on, trust me, I've read The Vagina Monologues enough times] they call the female reproductive organ. Like how I think it's silly for journalists to ask questions like 'Describe yourself in three words', I think it's fucking ridiculous to reduce the sexual potential of an individual to a word.

A word. They reduce it to a word!

motherfuckers.

A woman is never allowed to integrate with her sexual nature in a way that isn't demeaning or frightening. Take the legacy of the Delilah story: always, a woman is seen as using her sex appeal to destroy a man, to get power, to gain the upper hand. Or else it is out of need, she must display her erotic nature in order to sell her body to make a living. The notion of a woman simply reveling in her own gorgeousness and sensuality because she can, because she wants it and because she just fucking wants to does not seem to exist in our cultural lexicon.

She is always using it.

Then again, for such a source of all the world's evil that women's sexuality is said to be, few women have actually manipulated that power and fucked the world inside out. Putting out one's pussy power, one's pretty power, whatever you want to call it, doesn't make you a bimbo or a whore - it makes you smart. It allows you, a woman, to reduce the potential of a fully-grown straight male [who are more often then not, the screwed up motherfuckers of the planet] to their dicks.

Of course, if women are granted so much responsibility and credit and blame for the behaviour of the men they screw, then we truly do believe that any guy with a hard-on has indeed cut off the blood flow to his brain - which I have to say is pretty much true, but they usually come to their senses at some point.

Singaporean women today live in the luxury of attaining an almost-equal status to men. Almost-equal, because there are always social, cultural, racial and religious norms and beliefs that have instilled the notion that the male of the species is better than the female. My parents even, have been subjected to this ideology I refuse to believe in, even on a religious stand. [That, is of course, another rant for another time.]

Other women in various parts of the Asian continent have yet to experience this 'liberated' option they have never known to exist. The fight for gay rights may be the new feminism, but the fight is far from over. Women in India, in Sudan, in the Middle East, are continually being beaten up by their spouses and they think it's something they should endure just 'cos they're women, female children in these countries are still being circumcised and under unhygienic conditions because their 'down there' is considered dirty, women have so much potential, so much talents. But they're told, no.

You're a girl, you shouldn't be doing this. Don't have to get further education, you're going to get married. You're a woman, you're a lady, you're female.

It's about time you don't shut up. It's about time you told them to grow some balls and get a fucking life. It's just about time.

It's about time somebody did something to initiate change. It's time to move to post-patriarchy, people, and we need all the help we can fucking get.