Originally Posted by The Batlord

Dude, cunt is almost as derogatory towards women as faggot is to gays. It implies that there is something so inferior about a certain people that associating someone with them is profane. It may not imply that women are unnaturally abhorrent, but calling someone a cunt or a bitch or a pussy is denying any sort of masculinity, which apparently is almost the lowest thing you can imply of someone (not to mention that faggot is often used interchangeably with those words).