> Some students always did suggest "slut," but while language is pretty
> malleable, it's not in this instance. What the word "slut" would mean
> applied to a male would be "You are just as bad as all those females."
> It just doesn't come close to carrying the load that, for centuries,
> "slut" has carried. The difficulty of finding slur words that aren't
> gendered is a dramatic image of the history of gender relations.
Isn't it used among gay men, or am I imagining that?
In undergrad I had friends that used "slut" for promiscuous straight men, but it always sounded forced.
-- Andy