#2341: The word kolanget: Grey comments

[Robert Corbett <bcorbett@netcom.com>]

From:Racine125@aol.com

I can't believe this discussion is even taking place.  A woman's "tete 
languette" is the head of her clitoris, ask any Haitian man who knows what to 
do with one when he gets it!

There is a very simple reason why this insult became so popular - it is used, 
in varous forms, in Africa and in other countries in the Caribbean.  
Jamaicans, for example, sometimes refer to a particularly vexing problem or 
person as a "wicked pussy tongue."

The origin of this insult?  Here it is!  Most of the African ethnic groups 
which were transported to Haiti practiced female genital mutilation in their 
places of origin.  They couldn't do it in Haiti though, no one had weeks and 
months of time off to give women slaves, to permit them to recover from their 
mutilations assuming they survived.  

A woman who has a clitoris, in the sick mind set of mutilating cultures, is 
*improper*, she is desirous of sex and of other things and also harbors the 
potential for witchcraft in her offensive clitoris.  She passes along this 
desirousness and tendency to do evil to her children, who will probably grow 
up to be thieves.  "Your mother's clitoris" is sort of like, "Your father was 
a horse thief", only worse.

Peace and love,

Bon Mambo Racine Sans Bout Sa Te La Daginen

"Se bon ki ra", 
     Good is rare - Haitian Proverb

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