The Worst Thing A Girl Can Be
One of My Dear Readers offered me this charming piece of valuable constructive criticism:
"You look down on everyone you feel is socially, economically, ethnically inferior to you, which is a huge majority of the population."
Oh, puh-leaze. Let's not play the Race Card. I'm an ethnic minority, so I will always win at the Race Card Game. Besides, if you read any postings looking down on minorities of any stripe, you were Reading The Wrong Blog. Try Jerry Falwell's or Rick Santorum's, or The Free Republic. But not this one.
He then continues:
"You would not be able to live anywhere other than New York because you need the superficiality that it offers."
Not surprising, considering how I am A Blog Persona, and Blog Personas are, by definition, superficial.
But he then concludes:
"I would bet that you have not had serious relationships but that you are rather whorish and once a guy is done using you for sex, he moves on."
His line of argument puzzled me. Since when does "Racist" + "Superficial" = "Slut"?
And then it hit me. To the unimaginative, the most vicious insult you can call a girl is ... a Slut. Couple the "Slut" with that tired cliche called "The Kind Of Girl Men Screw And Leave", and you have, in a bag, the worst thing a girl can be.
Forget Lynndie England and Abu Ghraib. And what of Martha Stewart, Andrea Yates, Ethel Rosenberg? Forgiven or forgotten. Of all the Bad Things a woman can do: war crimes, insider trading, treason, infanticide - in the Public Eye, a woman has not truly fallen unless she has Become a Slut.
And why is this? (Audience, help me out here) I can't begin to answer. One can easily be The Type Of Girl That Men Screw And Leave and still be an associate at an investment bank, or a violinist at Carnegie Hall, or an olympic medalist, or teacher inspiring inner-city students to attend college, or a surgeon, or an astronaut, or an army officer.
Or, more personally: a loyal friend, a donor to numerous charities, a respectful daughter, a competent employee, a diligent pupil, a regular depositor of change into the "Help the Homeless" jugs on Broadway, a feeder of stray cats, a returner of lost wallets (without ransacking their contents), a non-downloader of illegally free music....
So audience, answer me this: Why, when we're trying to find out what would insult a woman we don't like the most, and make her Feel The Worst About Herself, do we reach into our bags and pull out that hackneyed refrain, "Slut!"
posted by Plain Jane Jones @ 8:28 AM
6 Comments:
how do you know it was a guy that wrote that comment? Looking at the original comment there is no indication on whether the poster was male or female.
i always thought the worst think you could call a girl was "cunt".
"how do you know it was a guy that wrote that comment? Looking at the original comment there is no indication on whether the poster was male or female."
I could be wrong, but the poster's moniker was "Alan R." Sounds pretty male to me, but the gender of the poster doesn't really affect my overall point, i.e. why is "slut" the worst thing a female can be.
The C-word may be the most profane word to call a woman (or a man, for that matter). Arguably, every woman alive in the 20th Century, except for perhaps Mother Teresa and Jackie Kennedy Onassis, can be called The C-Word with a straight face. However, when asked to define The C-Word, there's no set definition. Is it merely a stronger form of "bitch"? Can one be a bitch and not be a c*nt? Vice versa? I can't begin to draw the Venn diagram on that one.
However, no matter how you define it, the word "slut" questions a woman's sexual virtue, and that, unfortunately, seems to be the worst insult you can give a woman - to insult her "purity" and her ability to attract men interested in her For The Right Reasons. I have no idea what we're insulting when we call a woman The C-Word.
No one is arguing about the cities, you stupid fuck.
They're arguing that you're a self centered cunt for looking down on people just because they live in cities that aren't exactly New York or London.
didnt he say you are whorish? i didnt see slut anywhere in the post. also I think your math is off. Its not "Racist" + "Superficial" = "Slut" but rather "Racist" + "Superficial" + "Slut" = you.
"also I think your math is off. Its not "Racist" + "Superficial" = "Slut" but rather "Racist" + "Superficial" + "Slut" = you."
And please tell me how any of my posts make derogatory comments to members of any protected classes, or disclose the number of sexual partners that I have had (which is the definition of "slut", if I recall). I really can't argue with you on the superficiality bit.
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