# I don't think I deserved to be called a whore **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 1, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-i-deserved-to-be-called-a-whore/366913 "2006-08-01T17:47:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-i-deserved-to-be-called-a-whore/366913/161 "2006-08-03T14:26:10Z")
> [@RSSchen](#): > > My five-year-old boy _freaks_ out if he sees a spider. His dad will, on occasion, chase him around with the smushed spider just to get a larf. It’s funny. Sure, it’s funny. Once and a while. It’d be another thing if he kept a plastic tarantula in a drawer, tortured the kid with it until he cried, and it’d be even worse if he did this in front of his friends. That’d be sadistic. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-i-deserved-to-be-called-a-whore/366913/162 "2006-08-03T14:31:05Z")
> [@Long Time Lurker](#): > > Come now… It’s one thing to take an odd stance on a particular issue. It’s another to take a borderline indefensible position on just about every topic that comes up. She’s either a very disturbed individual or, far more likely, enjoying the reactions. Cogent summary. I’m closing this thread. If **Blanche** actually is just a misguided newbie then the closure is a rare, one-time mercy killing that might allow her enough slack to redeem herself. If she’s just a glutton for attention–any attention, even negative–then this thread is just so much **Blanche** chow. Enough already. Closed. Veb [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-i-deserved-to-be-called-a-whore/366913.md?page=8)