Yeah, But ….
There’s a congressslug in Minnesota who is upset something terrible that he can’t call women sluts anymore. Needs that word to discredit liberal women.
Rep. Jason Lewis whined ….
Does a woman now have the right to behave — and I know there’s a double standard between the way men chase women and running and running around — you know, I’m not going to get there, but you know what I’m talking about. But it used to be that women were held to a little bit of a higher standard. We required modesty from women. Now, are we beyond those days where a woman can behave as a slut, but you can’t call her a slut?”
Yeah Jason, but thank Sweet Jesus, you can still call men sumbitches.
You sumbitch.
Slut is such a stupid word. Wherever did it come from?
1To borrow someone else’s comment:
That’s what he calls women who won’t fork him…
2A slut is woman who behaves like a man, according to men like Lewis.
Modest? So, are we talking handmaids in red prairie dresses or old nuns in habits?
3Right on, Old Fart. When a women says “No” she is labeled every derogatory name in the book. Even when she says “Yes”, if at some later date she refuses, the scurrilous epithets pour forth. If a woman dares to disagree with a gent, questions a man’s motives or in any way stands up for herself, she is hit with a barrage of profanity, usually beginning with b**ch.
4I think we all know male sluts, except they probably think of themselves as studs.
5Maryelle. This is what bitch means:
Boys
6I’m
Taking
Charge
Here
Papa, I know the definition, but I was wondering about the origin of such a silly word. Now that women are proudly “owning” the words bitch and slut, it must upset guys like Jason Lewis no end.
7Actually as I recall, a slut are/were the fibers that flew around when spinning yarn. So a slut is actually a term for a messing spinner who kept an untidy area. I think check with your local spinners.
8A slut is the last woman in the bar at closing time who looks at Lewis and looks at the relief bartender with the lazy eye and then leaves with the bartender. Lesbo bitch.
9Okay, I don’t know if you remember me telling you before, but that 2 bit, cheap, lazy, whore, tramp that is the subject of this post got elected in my district. Oh gawd.
He does not represent Minnesota District 2. He represents the Kochs and all GOP 2 bit, cheap, lazy, whore, tramps in DC. He is a younger clone of Jesse Helms– on his very best days.
During his term/our torture, he never met with us, only his wealthy owners. He said he didn’t need town halls because we know where he stands. Id like to stand on his disgusting head.
I am joining many, many others working hard to elect Angie Craig, mother of 2, married lesbian, successful business exec.
Gawd I hate Lewis. I call him the Minnesota Embarrassment. Gak!!
10@AK Lynne
Apparently the word had varied meanings over time including dirty, untidy, immoral, and low class. The British version is “slag” and another American variant of the slur is “skank”.
Enjoy this wiki link for the word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slut
11AK Lynne:
The word slut apparently is rooted in old Middle English from the 15th century.
12Hey, Jason! Would you like some cheese with that whine? It’s not the 1950s any more, and you can’t insult women without consequences. Deal with it.
13AK Lynne –
14From Barnhart’s Etymology:
1402 slutte, slovenly woman, later, woman of loose morals (prob before 1475), of uncertain origin; probably cognate with dialectal German Schlutt, Schlutte, slovenly woman, dialectal Swedish slata, idle woman, slut, Dutch slodde, slodder, slut
The terms “slut,” “whore,” “bitch,” and a few others are words some men (“***holes”) use to describe women whom they do not control sexually, and they’re angry about that. Hence these are often words to be proud of. BITCH also stands for Being In Total Control of Herself.
As an example of how ridiculous the usage can be, compared with what we think it ought to be: in an old folk song I’ve heard, a young woman refuses to marry the wealthy older man her father has arranged for her, and wants to marry the young man she loves. Her father says she is playing the tricks of a whore… because she wants to marry for love rather than selling herself into a loveless marriage for money– exactly the opposite, we would think. But she’s telling her father that he doesn’t control her sexual parts, and that makes her a “whore” in his eyes.
If a man uses words like these, it says a lot more about him than about the woman he thinks he’s describing. I say grab the word and fly it like a flag!
15@AK Lynnne – I have up my handy-dandy Dictionary app.
Origin: 1375 – 1425; late Middle English slutte; compare dial. slut mud, Norwegian (dial.) slutr sleet, impure liquid.
Word story
SLUT first appeared in the written language in 1402, according to the OED. At that time, SLUT meant roughly what one sense of slattern means today: a slovenly, untidy woman or girl. It also apparently meant “kitchen maid” (“She is a cheerful slut who keeps the pots scrubbed and the fired hot.”) By the end of the 15th century, the sense “a woman given to immoral or improper conduct” had come into use, but this meaning is not current today. Interestingly, slattern also developed the meaning “prostitute, harlot.” Some feminists have reclaimed the word SLUT and use it to mean a sexually liberated woman.
I think the story is incorrect where it says, “…this meaning is not current today.” Perhaps Huckaboo will do dictionary.com’s retraction?
16AK Lynne, it’s a very old English word (more than 600y/o):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slut
17“Although the ultimate origin of the word slut is unknown, it first appeared in Middle English in 1402 as slutte (AHD), with the meaning “a dirty, untidy, or slovenly woman”.[9] Even earlier, Geoffrey Chaucer used the word sluttish (c. 1386) to describe a slovenly man; however, later uses appear almost exclusively associated with women.[9] The modern sense of “a sexually promiscuous woman” dates to at least 1450.[9] “
If this is all he has to be concerned with then he ain’t doing his job right! Can him!
18JJ says “sumbitch”, I say “dickhead” — po-ta-to, po-tah-to.
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