The "C Word"

Ok, I don't know how many of you watch Dr. Phil. Not too long ago, on one of his shows, there was a couple in which the husband was not nice to his wife. He would bad-mouth her and call her names...like the "C word" (as Dr. Phil referred to it).

Well, my nearly 68 year old grandmother apparently had never heard of this so called "C word" and I recently had the privilege of explaining it to her. She caught me the other day as I was getting ready to leave her house and the girls were still inside. She said "I wanted to ask you something when the girls weren't around. Do you know what the "C word" is? Dr. Phil said it the other day. He said that a man called his wife that and I wasn't sure what he meant."

UMMMMMM....AWKWARD!!!(<--said with my best Kevin James impression). Let me just say that I was now put in a situation where I had to explain what this means to a woman who refers to a girl's privates as her "front bottom". My family was never open with discussing things like this or teaching proper names for body parts. I am trying to NOT be that way with my kids.

"Well grandma, it's a slang term for a woman's genetalia. C-U-N-T. It's not a nice thing to call someone."

"Oh," she said, "I guess I've never heard that term before."

Sheesh!