On 6/3/06, Andy F <andy274 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/2/06, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
> > 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
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