A Piece of Advice for XYs

I still have steam coming out of my ears, so I might be just a bit... erm... harsh, but bear with me.

Here's what happened, I wrote something vaguely like: 'boys who open their mouths to speak (or pass laws!) about ladies' biology must learn to shut their mouths because they're not equipped, can't understand, and those are twats'.

This is what I think. 

I'm not going to tell men how to play with their equipment, or how to wash it, or how to deal with it from a medical point of view. Not my frigging business, and honestly, I don't care (never have, never will).

But... when I see little boys (because they can be 65 or 72, in their heads, they're stuck in nursery school!) trying to tell me what I can or cannot do, that brings out the Italian matriarch in me - the one with a rolling pin glued to her hand and the '210 Ways to Break Bones with a Rolling Pin' manual encoded in her DNA.

Why am I growling now?

Is it because some new piece of news hit the Internet and made me blow a fuse?

Nope.

I just got a nice message from a bloke I don't know.

A bloke who nicely said that he agrees with me..............................................

*drop of the other shoe*

But...............................................

[Part to be read with a very annoying voice in your head...] He really wanted to tell me that "twat" was a poor choice of word, because I've got to understand that it's slang for, I quote, "vulva". [/stage direction]

No frelling way! I didn't know that! Well, of course, I could have not known it, but I do.

And what if I happen to think that those boys are twats - because it's a word, an insult, I happen to like? 

And what if I think that it's an appropriate word for boys who do sound as if:

          a- They've got an unhealthy fascination with ladies' equipments

          b- They sound a lot as if they wish they had one of their own to play with?

Dear XYs,

most of you are really nice, and I quite like you, but keep in mind a few things:

          1- I can say "twat" and "cunt" all I like, I'm equipped (and I can bloody say what I want!)

         2- Stop assuming that I don't know the etymology of words (I've got diplomas in English: Old English, Modern English, Etymology, translation - and don't get me started on my M.St. in Mediaeval Palaeography! I mean there are things I do not know, yes, but stop thinking you know more because you're a man. Ta! Muchly.).

         3- I'm going to be charitable and consider that the bloke in question might have meant well, but he should think a minute about what he's just done, put himself in my shoes, and hear how bloody patronizing he sounded! Basically, he corrected me for thinking I might have wanted to say something else. 

Sorry, Cupcake, I meant that those boys are twats, and for correcting me whilst I don't know you at all, you're a cunt.

       4- If you, boys, think that I'm not behaving/speaking/looking/whatever like a lady... Fuck off! This is the twenty-first century, and the girls in my family are born with a rolling pin.

Keep in mind to treat XXs the way you expect to be treated, and we'll keep the rolling pins in the kitchen.

Otherwise... 

Cheers!

Dru, really pissed off