Everyone’s a Cunt… Apparently That Can Be Helpful

Every now and then, someone tells us a story about Everyone’s a Cunt that we absolutely did not see coming.

Last month, I arrived onsite for work and introduced myself to a company representative.

There was no “Nice to meet you.” No “How have you been?” We skipped the pleasantries entirely.

Instead, he went straight in with: “I’ve read your book. I love it.”

Obviously, this is an excellent way to greet one of the six Good Cunts who wrote it.

I told him that was great and that I was really glad he enjoyed it.

But then he told me why the book had actually become a bit more significant in his house.

His 16 year old daughter had been having a difficult time at school with other kids. The usual teenage stuff that, when you're actually the teenager living through it, doesn't feel like "the usual teenage stuff" at all.

People can be difficult. Mean. Competitive. Fake. Loud. Self-important. Manipulative. Attention-seeking. Sometimes they're just a bit of a cunt.

Her dad gave her his copy of Everyone’s a Cunt and told her, essentially:

Everyone you're dealing with is in this book.

And apparently, she took that advice very seriously. She now has a list on her mirror.

On one side are the various types of cunts she's identified from the book.

Alongside them are the actual names of the people in her life who fit each category.

Which may be the most practical application of our book we've heard so far.

But what her dad said next really stuck with me.

She's finding these people easier to deal with now that she's classified them.

And weirdly enough, it makes sense.

Because once you recognise someone's behaviour for what it is, perhaps it becomes a little less personal.

Instead of wondering:

Why does she keep doing that to me? Why doesn't he like me? What have I done wrong?

Maybe it becomes:

Oh. That's just what kind of cunt they are. And you get on with your day.

Maybe that was the point all along.

We wrote Everyone’s a Cunt to make people laugh.

It's observational humour. It's about recognising the personalities we all encounter and, if we're being particularly self-aware, recognising a few of them in ourselves.

We certainly didn't write it as a teenage survival guide.

But I love that this girl has taken something funny and turned it into her own little system for dealing with people.

She's not changing them. She's not trying to understand every motivation behind their behaviour.

She's simply recognising the type, putting them in the appropriate cunt category and moving on.

There's something quite liberating about that.

Because one of the hardest lessons to learn at 16 or 60 is that not everyone's behaviour deserves your energy.

Sometimes people are going to be difficult.

Sometimes they're going to say things you don't like.

Sometimes you're going to meet someone and think, What the fuck is wrong with you?

And sometimes it helps to realise:

Ahhh. I've met this cunt before.Different name. Same profile.

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