reading HN as a woman is an exercise in managing fury
One thing I will say is that the prefixes I gave are in general use as descriptive epithets by both men and women across much of the English speaking world, along with many others decribing the male genitalia, with much greater frequency than you will find on here. Personally, I'm with Alice Fraser on this one - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gioul9PW9B0 - but will cheerfully adapt the taxonomy in future, if I can find better words to use for the prefixes. Any ideas?
I'm not convinced it breaks down into three clean categories anyway.
I disagree. In the taxonomy of these things, being a twat is more impulsive misbehaviour, while being a cunt involves malicious aforethought and intent. There is a fairly clear meaning from that general usage.
>I'm not convinced it breaks down into three clean categories anyway.
I agree, but I didn't make it up and people tend to use the rule of three for stuff like this. I suppose a category of dickproof could be added between foolproof and twatproof, but I think it already has a lot of overlap with foolproof.
Firstly, twatproof, from reply #14 in the Festool owner's group to a question about dovetails:
>"I just had a go with the Festool jig and it's the most twatproof solution I've ever seen."
https://www.festoolownersgroup.com/hand-tools/advice-sought-...
and secondly, cuntproof, on twitter, with someone called Wiryjack describing the term to the award winning writer and naturalist Helen Macdonald:
>"A mechanic I used to know described things as 'cuntproof', which I took to mean foolproof but extra robust to deter the malicious as well as the stupid."
https://twitter.com/Wiryjack/status/938755264815271938
I may note that Helen Macdonald apparently considers cuntproof to be an excellent term, well worth adding to her vocabulary.
FWIW, as a native English speaker I also found your post both needlessly offensive and equally inscrutable.