We know it is not the same in the UK/Europe in general.
As was explained when the issue was first brought to Footie-GAF's attention, "NeoGAF is an international forum, populated by people from many countries. To maintain a reasonable environment for all our users, that means words that are inappropriate in one English-speaking area are inappropriate across the board on GAF. Usage in England doesn't matter because the meaning of "cunt" in the US/Canada is enough on its own to ban it for everyone."
There is no reason to allow carte blanche on "cunt" as an insult, any more than we would allow posters to use fag / faggot / gay as insults, though those things are all nigh ubiquitous - and not necessarily particularly offensive among those who use it - among adolescent Americans.
You are referring to either ProdicalFlame in the Euro 2012 thread, or possibly Musha_Soturi in the UK-GAF Community thread, and in both cases the objection was not something I had said. ProdicalFlame said that she was insulted by the presumption that she was offended by the word; Musha similarly said at some point that I had been attempting to speak for them.
I had not. As
I explained in the topic, I did not argue that any particular individual woman would take offense; I argued that it was an implicit insult. This is true, whether or not one takes offense at that implicit insult or not.
