There are so many insults and slanders we hurl at each other (generally speaking) as well as in the BBQ Pit. I was labeled a racist, more than once, in that very same thread. It is not gendered but it is offensive. Is skank really worse?
Don’t get me wrong, it is a nasty insult and I think it says a lot about the person using that language (nothing good about them) but it does seem weird to be debating an insult from a thread where vile insults were flying all over the place in a section that very much allows insults.
Doper flung the insult as a retort after I accused him of being drunk. Seeing his incoherently inane posts, I decided drunkenness must be the most likely explanation.
Now, what I said to him was not nice. That was in response to his careless foolishness in mucking up the point I was trying to make: The people of Iran are very nice, their government is very not-nice, and that’s why they hate their government. I don’t want anyone attacking Iran, because of the good people there.
It was a BIG thing in the '70s and '80s, at least. When my parents got divorced mid-'70s, my father moved into a large apartment complex that was one of the early ones promoted as a singles haven, with a communal clubroom and cool parties, near O’Hare Airport. Many of the apartment residents were newly-divorced men with mustaches and long sideburns, and comely stewardesses (as they were called at the time) sharing a pad between flights. One of the swinging bachelor friends helped teach me how to drive. My dad actually briefly married the sister of one of the stewardesses. After that marriage ended, he continued in the swinging bachelor phase for another long period of time and hung out with many other bachelors in the same position. I have no idea when that period ended, as I moved out of state not long after. - My dad was actually included in a 1981 book of eligible bachelors called “A Woman’s Guide to Single Men in Chicago” (where he conveniently forgot to mention his 7 children).