I’m not sure what you’re juxtaposing with what here, but the Paris Hilton thread is from well before last year. It’s actually almost five years old.
When she leaves the room.
(hat tip: Hello Ladies)
Dammit, when are we gonna get a “like” button? I want to use it here!
If she’s standing on your street corner with her skirt hiked up and runs in her stockings. Otherwise, never. Oh, and elbows’ contribution.
I find calling people any names is rather unrewarding. Except on occasion on some message boards questioning someones intelligence does come into play. I would never call anyone a slut.
/slowclap
Never. It’s never okay to use slurs. Same goes for bitch, whore, and other mostly gender-specific slurs (not to mention sexual orienation, race, and religion based slurs).
When is it okay to call a woman a slut?
To her face: When she asks you to.
Behind her back: Never.
Which word is that? I can think of a lot of words that start with the letter N.
I can’t imagine it ever being OK.
If her given name is Sluterella and you’re in a hurry.
What if you’re doing her from behind?
I’ve never understood what a slut was supposed to be. I don’t think I’ve ever called anyone a slut before.
I’ll be stealing the “sluterella” name for use in the future. Thanks for your contribution.
“Nutella.”
I suppose when doing D/S play. Some like getting kinky that way.
OK, I can see that. OTOH your husband could be such a stud he has seduced an otherwise highly respectable lady…
Hey, is this from the “weird names parents give their babies” thread?
Miller: Slutterella Nutella could be a good stage name for a punk stripper. But yes, the whole thing about “[initial]-word” sounds like the principal’s office at grade school. Soon we will be seeing people writing “s-word” and “w-word” instead of slut and whore, which solves nothing.
When you get up to wash your face, and you come back to bed and someone’s taken your place.
Oh come on people, never? Get a grip! I knew a woman that was sleeping with her boss and got favorable treatment on the job. She’s a slut.
It’s officially okay to call her a slut after she is fired and you won’t get grief for it from your boss.
It is a strange but somehow accurate thing that when you see a woman hooking up with a group of guys she is a slut, when you see a guy hooking up with a group of women he is a legend. Perhaps it is the perceived rareness of the event? Scarcity of resources, or some such?
But in general, if you are calling someone a slut just because they get around you are probably pretty bored with your own sex life.
So you’re fine with using slurs against women, but only if they ‘really deserve it’. Are you also fine with using racial slurs, but only if they ‘really deserve it’?
Perhaps it’s because of a sexist double standard?
“Slut” isn’t a generic slur for a woman. It’s generally used as a slur for a woman believed to be engaging in a certain kind of behaviour. It can also be used for men doing the same.
For me, the only way to answer the question is to decide if, assuming it’s used equally to mean anyone who is overly promiscuous, it’s ever useful to describe someone in such a way. Yes, it’s an insult, but that doesn’t mean it’s never useful.
Personally, I’d feel reasonably comfortable using the word “slut” to describe a man or woman with a history of cheating on his or her partners, or perhaps even making very questionable choices about who to have sex with.
It’s mostly used for women. Just like some racial slurs are mostly used for specific races, but sometimes used against others.
I’m not comfortable using the word “slut” because I think it has a history of being used to demean women. Just like other slurs against homosexuals and various races/religions have a history of being used to demean people in specific groups.