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[Poll #1479079]

This is not at all inspired by that annoying sf_drama post. My vote goes to slut, because not only do I fucking hate that word and any variation of it, but I find insults about sexual history particularly offensive.

I SHOULD POST ABOUT HALLOWEEN but there's really nothing to say. I might dress up as something and hand out candy but I don't know, man, I'm just hanging out on the couch.

Edit: DUDE I AM BANNED FROM cf_hardcore. THIS IS WITHOUT CAUSE. I DEMAND A RECOUNT.

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Picked "slut"-- since, you know, there's this weird sexual history double standard and all, and because it's just such a cheap, throwaway way to disenfranchise a woman. Furthermore, it reflects our tendency to make the female body a public entity: what a woman does or does not do with her body is something that's fair game for anyone to pick apart in our culture. Consider magazines and television programs, evaluating extensively so-and-so's weight gain or weight loss, or what they wear, or hair color changes, etc, etc. The same goes for sexual decisions, though to a less mass-media extent. It's perfectly fair to pass judgment on someone's body choices with respect to your own personal values and biases when their body is common property.


"Bitch" comes in a close second, though, because it has some sort of subjugation connotation going on-- a bitch is a woman who's behaving out of line in some way, shape or form, and needs to be put back in her place. It just feeds right off the old "hysterical woman" archetype. By virtue of being a "bitch", a woman needn't be regarded sincerely. Again, cheap disenfranchisement. Incredibly easy; I'm sure everyone's heard someone say that about a woman before at least once.