Jose is a lady friend who works in a female office setting. She has renounced feminism recently, primarily based on her experience working in predominantly female temp jobs, which has convinced her that unilateral female or mangina rule is not desirable. Like Terry, Miss Ezz and Megan she occasionally vents to me about her work environment, as I am inclined to listen. In this way I do a friend a favor and gather more material for building realistic female characters—which, by the way, are the last kind of female characters a female reader or editor wants to see in fiction!

Here is her text from 7/21/15, 11:25 a.m.

“Derivation: ϲunt/cunning

Connive I posit comes from same, because of French con/conne from Latin cunnus.

“Usage: women are catty, cunning, conniving, & cutting.

“Comment: it’s a wonder more men don’t swear off pussy.

“Sick of them today.

“Stinking henhouse.”

Sorry to find you are having a catty day, Jose. I, as a mere misogynist, rather than a turncoat feminist, do not hold your antipathy toward the female gender. As Caesar surely observed, a cunnus, in the hands of the right man, does have its uses, even a particularly cunning one named after the lioness, with cat-painted eyes, that comes wrapped in a tapestry asking you to kill her sissy brother.