The more you know! Pedro Pascal has once again shown his LGBTQ+ allyship by smoothly explaining the meaning of “cunty” to his Fantastic Four co-star Vanessa Kirby.
Lovingly dubbed “the internet’s daddy,” Pascal is currently promoting his upcoming Marvel film, The Fantastic Four: First Steps.
In the Marvel Studios movie, Pascal portrays Mister Fantastic, aka Dr. Reed Richards, a brilliant scientist and inventor who is considered Earth’s most intelligent person.
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During a recent chat with Australian media outlet Pedestrian TV, Pascal hilariously broke down the meaning of “cunty” for Kirby, who plays Sue Storm/Invisible Woman.
When the interviewer mentioned that Kirby has become “a social media icon” for her “forcefield snatched c*nty fierceness face,” the actress responded uncertainly, “Oh, God! I don’t know if that’s a good thing.”
Pascal jumped in with his iconic explanation: “It’s a good thing, babe. C*nty face just means fierce, fabulous, beautiful, strong. It’s good, it’s good.”
While the C-word has very misogynistic roots, it was reclaimed in New York’s Black and Latino queer ballroom scene during the 1980s as a way “to forge a linguistic identity separate from the straight, white norms of the English language,” linguist Adam Aleksic told Glamour.
After being reclaimed “as a form of identity” among Black and Latino gay men in ballroom spaces, it spread throughout the gay community in the 90s and early 2000s. Like “slay,” another LGBTQ+ term, it entered mainstream vocabulary through millions of queer and ally viewers of RuPaul’s Drag Race.
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Aleksic noted that in ballroom culture, “serving cnt” or “giving cnt” was more literal, meaning “you are giving femininity.” Today, the word has evolved to be “sort of a synonym of ‘camp’, sort of [meaning] ironically cool”.