It's ok... I'm a slut

[shoetick]

So Maureen Dowd has finally put a fork in it. Being a slut is now funny after 25 years.



What’s Up, Slut?...
After eons of being a summary judgment that a woman is damaged goods, the word slut has shifted into more ambiguous territory. It can still be an insult, especially since there is no pejorative equivalent to suggest that a man has sullied himself with too many sexual partners. Men are players, women are sluts, just the way men are tough and women are bitchy.

Republicans denigrated the prim law professor Anita Hill by painting her, in David Brock’s memorable phrase, as “a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty.’’ Clinton defenders demonized Monica Lewinsky the same way.

But as women express themselves more, sexually and professionally, and no longer need to “use their virginity as a meal ticket,’’ as the anthropologist Helen Fisher puts it, the slur may have lost some sting. The Times’s Stephanie Rosenbloom writes that the word has morphed into a term of endearment and teasing, with teenage girls greeting each other with “Hi, slut!’’ — the way “queer” and “pimp” took on different coloration, and the way “girl” went from an insult in early feminist days to a word embraced by young women. The gangsta rap characterizations of women that some found offensive are now being embraced by many young women.

“Slut” is a faddish appellation for everything from lip balm to cocktails, and applies to voracious behavior of all kinds; Cosmopolitan recently ran a quiz on how to tell if you’re an “attention slut.”

“It’s just a really fun word to say,” explains my classy 26-year-old girlfriend. “Usually women only call someone a slut if she’s not slutty, but if you do call a slutty friend a slut, you can get away with it because, oh, it was just a joke, even when it’s not. So, yet another way for mean girls to flourish.”

If you have Times Select: http://select.nytimes.com/2006/07/15/opinion/15dowd.html

[Hildegard]

Being sexually free is a good thing. I believe women can pull it off. But if you take somebody home and pine by the phone later, you're a stupid slut. When you can take somebody home and unplug the fucking phone, you're getting the idea. That's empowerment. Until women get that, being called a "slut" will remain an unfunny, pathetic epithet.

[shoetick]

stupid slut


uh huh huh, she said stupid slut. uh huh huh huh huh

I couldn't resist. If rob and gypsy approve i'll post the whole column. It is a good one.

[shady lane]

so the times is all over this slut issue. 'cause this came up in the multiculturalism top 10 thread (http://funhouserock.com/funhouse/blab/showthread.php?t=3334&highlight=multiculturalism), where ernie linked to this (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/13/fashion/thursdaystyles/13women.html?pagewanted=2&8dpc?8dpc&_r=1).

[shoetick]

so the times is all over this slut issue. 'cause this came up in the multiculturalism top 10 thread (http://funhouserock.com/funhouse/blab/showthread.php?t=3334&highlight=multiculturalism), where ernie linked to this (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/13/fashion/thursdaystyles/13women.html?pagewanted=2&8dpc?8dpc&_r=1).

I guess so, I don't know how i missed an entire thread named that but I must have.

[annieO]

When you can take somebody home and unplug the fucking phone, you're getting the idea.

Dead-on. I couldn't agree more.

[knoxregressive]

ahore fucks everybody a slut fucks everybody but you

[jack frost]

People like their serious relationships. I do too, of course, having been in a 6 year one not long ago. But it makes things very hard. Really cool girls are almost never single. They go from boyfriend to boyfriend faster than monarchy goes from dead king to prince. I'm getting depressed just typing this.

[~Rumormonger~]

I believe women can pull it off.

Oh, c'mon...You knew I wasn't gonna let that slide by ;~)

[gypsy]

so the times is all over this slut issue.

all the cooze that's hit, we print.

[fluffy]

all the cooze that's hit, we print.


maybe someone will start mailing you used thongs instead of white powders.

[shady lane]

maybe someone will start mailing you used thongs instead of white powders.

now what's protocol for that? do you alert your supervisor first, or can you just vomit right away?

[metulj]

maybe someone will start mailing you used thongs instead of white powders.

A continuing motif in my life here in the Northeast is the 'discarded thong.' I see them everywhere. When next in NY, look for them. My favorite was the pair under our table at EJ's Luncheonette on the Upper East Side.

[gypsy]

oh. funny story about that...

[fluffy]

now what's protocol for that? do you alert your supervisor first, or can you just vomit right away?


i think that according to your job description, you scream "EWWWW", then wash hands thoroughly.

[fluffy]

A continuing motif in my life here in the Northeast is the 'discarded thong.' I see them everywhere. When next in NY, look for them. My favorite was the pair under our table at EJ's Luncheonette on the Upper East Side.


im still amazed by the classic, the discarded condom. more than likely teens thinking its funny to toss them unrolled and open in the street as a joke after buying them in the convenience store. but you gotta wonder how many of them have been actually used and then disguarded them.

i can honestly say ive never seen a disguarded thong. must be a NYC thing.

[pixeljockey]

i can honestly say ive never seen a disguarded thong. must be a NYC thing.

miss manners says you should burn them "...one at a time, in a porcelain ramikan" and that "it's perfectly appropriate for children as young as 3 to be in attendance, as long as they are sufficiently self-controlled as to remain absolutely silent (and tearless) until the very last ember fades with muffled 'pop'"

[Hildegard]

i can honestly say ive never seen a disguarded thong. must be a NYC thing.

For sure. In East Tennessee, they snap loose on the hips and get absorbed into the plus size ass cracks that wear them. No litter, no laundry. It works, y'know?

[fluffy]

For sure. In East Tennessee, they snap loose on the hips and get absorbed into the plus size ass cracks that wear them.

probably the same reason i never saw a disguarded pork rind or twinkie when i lived in east tennessee too.

of course, with large women at least you couldnt see the thong since it was coverd by other clothing. in florida, there are WAAAY too many women who think that they can wear bikinis, but shouldnt.

[Quince]

In East Tennessee, they snap loose on the hips and get absorbed into the plus size ass cracks that wear them.

Hm. My first discarded-thong sighting was here.

http://http://funhouserock.com/funhouse/blab/showthread.php?p=46358#post46358 (http://funhouserock.com/funhouse/blab/showthread.php?p=46358#post46358)

That day, we also visited Sexy Stuf and a tat shop. Gatlinburg is so weird. It has a seamy OVERbelly.

BTW, Slim, some of us need our mighty asses. To deter kidnappers & all.

[Hildegard]

Gatlinburg is so weird. It has a seamy OVERbelly.

Ha!


BTW, Slim, some of us need our mighty asses. To deter kidnappers & all.


P'shaw and c'mon. You know whudda mean. Ever seen the cover of the White Trash cookbook?

[Quince]

Ever seen the cover of the White Trash cookbook?

No, but I get the feeling I'm about to.

[Hildegard]

No, but I get the feeling I'm about to.

I'll take that as a request. Here (http://www.messinas.ecartmall.com/assets/images/smallcookbooks_etccookbooks_iii4.jpg) ya go!

[Quince]

Mmm. Purty on the inside.

Thank you for that.

(I was afraid it was going to be this. (http://mensnewsdaily.com/blog/gonz/lost%20dog.jpg))

[Hildegard]

this. (http://mensnewsdaily.com/blog/gonz/lost%20dog.jpg))

Now that's what I'M talkin' about. Poor puppy is halfway absorbed already. How many kittens and lapdogs in Appalachia have been lost in precisely this fashion?

[Quince]

Poor puppy is halfway absorbed already.

You're assuming he's not on his way out.

[Raincrow]

For sure. In East Tennessee, they snap loose on the hips and get absorbed into the plus size ass cracks that wear them. No litter, no laundry. It works, y'know?

Many a vet has a sad tale of having to cut them off after they've embedded into the flesh from being "grown" around. Oh, wait, we're talking about people, right? Change "vet" to "ER doc."

[Raincrow]

Ha!



P'shaw and c'mon. You know whudda mean. Ever seen the cover of the White Trash cookbook?

There's a really good recipe for "potato chip 'n' mayonnaise-on-lightbread" samwich in there. Man, I could go for one of those about now.

CUE: ... moseying music ... as I amble off toward the kitchen.

[Georgia]

There's a really good recipe for "potato chip 'n' mayonnaise-on-lightbread" samwich in there. Man, I could go for one of those about now.

CUE: ... moseying music ... as I amble off toward the kitchen.

Wonder if that's anything like the ketchup, mustard and mayonnaise sandwiches my Dad used to make when he was a child during the depression.

[Quince]

Wonder if that's anything like the ketchup, mustard and mayonnaise sandwiches my Dad used to make when he was a child during the depression.

Dirty South depression still on!

You know Florida, Georgia, South Cakalaky
Growed up eatin spam sandwiches
Sugar water and mayonnaise sandwich
--Trick Daddy

[Raincrow]

Ladies, have you ever sent yore man off to work with a pinto bean sandwich?

Also, on another disctinct tangent of this topic, which of course by now has nothing to do with one's sluttiness or lack thereof--

I think referring to "white bread" as "light bread" is indicative of another semiotic subset of impoverished, ricketts-inducing Sudocentric victualizing.

[Georgia]

Also, on another disctinct tangent of this topic, which of course by now has nothing to do with one's sluttiness or lack thereof--

I think referring to "white bread" as "light bread" is indicative of another semiotic subset of impoverished, ricketts-inducing Sudocentric victualizing.

I was wondering the same thing.

I guess you need to differentiate between breads....light/white, corn bread and biscuits.

Then the dichotomas key would need to include regular cornbread, sweet cornbread and cracklin' cornbread and the biscuits could include those made with self-rising flour, those w/o levening, and those made with lard.
Possibilites are endless.

Ya'll are privy to the concept of a "Snellville Milkshake", aren't you?
(Least that's what folks from around where I'm from call it.)

It's when you take buttermilk or sweet milk and crumble up cornbread in it and eat it with an ice tea spoon.

Ok...now, back to sluttiness.

[Raincrow]

Ya'll are privy to the concept of a "Snellville Milkshake", aren't you?
...Ok...now, back to sluttiness.

Where I come from, the "Snellville Milkshake" and "sluttiness" have EVERYTHING to do with each other.

[Quince]

Where I come from, the "Snellville Milkshake" and "sluttiness" have EVERYTHING to do with each other.

What do you know about the Pikeville Jack?

[gypsy]

if you're goin' down to town tonight
you'd better watch your back
if you wear your gown tonight
look out for the pikeville jack

[Mac Comer]

Rockers like sluts...but it's not nice to call women names like that