It’s the way it’s often used, typically to disrespect strong women for behaviors that would earn their male counterparts praise. You’re not an “asshole,” which of course is a general and non-gendered insult, you’re a “cunt,” which implies there’s something specifically negative about being a woman exhibiting that behavior. When a man is called a cunt, it’s using it in a slightly different way, implying that they’re so bad they’re qualifying for female insults, which opens up a whole other box of connoting women and negativity. Basically it’s the same issue with every gendered insult, just the c-word is the worst of them, for whatever reason it came to be that way. Anyway, that’s how I see it, I’ve never really read any actually informed opinions on it, I’d probably seek those out and listen to them over my random ramblings.
Of course the truth is that the c-word doesn’t hold the same weight in other parts of the world. With the internet the way it is, and with it being so easy to hear people from these other parts saying the word without issue, it can be easy to forget that the word isn’t acceptable everywhere. I honestly don’t see why everyone felt the need to hop on Tyr’s case for one slip up (especially when we have people who throw around the r-word without anyone saying anything).
To be clear, I don’t mean don’t hop on Tyr’s case in general, obviously there are plenty of reasons to do that.
