I’ve never heard it. Do you mean “slag” maybe ?
Or when it comes to kids swearing at them. My son in law does this and it’s disturbing and crude.
I have heard skag whilst in school
Not sure anyone is arguing it’s not a revolting word. It’s extremely ugly is terms of what it means and how it sounds. I’d never use it. It always put me off how back in the 90s it was used to describe a type of jumpy dance at ska shows (“skanking.”)
Skag is heroin.
Yes. I meant “slag”
I missed it on preview
That’s the only sense I’ve seen it used.
My mistake. So sorry.
Not me.
Also, we sometimes go to Skagit County for the tulip festival.
Since this is the Dope, apparently skag is attested from the 1920s to mean an unattractive woman , and is a possible source for today’s skank.
I had read that same thing.
Now, we know where I got it.
Disclaimer: these words are not in my usual vocab.
Rather than focus on a term that is more semantics than substance, let’s look instead on the worldwide view of single adult women as opposed to single adult men. If you honestly see a marked difference, then I certainly can’t convince you.
Did you leave out a “don’t” from that sentence? As in “don’t see a marked difference”?
Yep, I sure did. Good eye!
This is my first day back from my 3 week break, so I have a lot to do. My multi-tasking can use some work. LOL
(Assuming you meant “no marked difference”, as pointed out.)
I wouldn’t say things are exactly the same regarding how single men and single women are talked to, or about, but I haven’t noticed either gender being markedly worse.
Of course, my personal experience is limited. I certainly can’t speak to the worldwide view. I’ve also personally experienced it only as a man, so I can’t compare. I’m not sure someone who’s only experienced it as a woman can make a fair comparison, either. Slights are more noticeable when we feel they’re directed at us.
I’m a man, and I’m quite comfortable saying in my personal experience it’s clearly much worse for women in this regard.
Yeah, it’s not even close.
As a white woman, I tend to agree. Because similarly, I notice that there’s sometimes a certain amount of hostile attitude towards white people, which many of us white people are especially sensitive to because we’re used to being treated as the “default human beings” rather than as a marginalized minority.
But the sheer volume and scale of hostility that white people encounter is nowhere near, within orders of magnitude, the baked-in dominant-culture hostility towards nonwhite people generated through centuries of institutionalized racism.
Likewise, though there are some negative cultural attitudes toward men floating around in the current zeitgeist, they don’t begin to approach the base level of background-radiation contempt and malevolence toward women that’s accumulated over millennia of institutionalized sexism and misogyny.
Be any of that as it may, I’m not sure what good it does to make those comparisons. Everybody probably feels insulted for who they are, from time to time. That should bring us together. If something makes us feel bad, that should make us less likely to do that same thing to someone else. I’d like the world to have more empathy and less blame.
If there was some rule that we could only fix one thing about the world at a time, then I’d agree, we should concentrate on the worst things first. But there isn’t such a rule. We should get rid of all the hateful, insulting language, rather than rail against some and dismiss others.
All lives hateful insulting language matters!