Again, I'm not talking about you and your friends. But since you keep bringing it up, I don't really care if it comes across as preachy. If you don't fit the 'category' of 'slut' - i.e. sleeping with "too many" people [whatever that is] - deciding you're going to use the word anyway isn't a revolutionary reclaiming of it, and doesn't make it okay to use. If you decided to 'reclaim' a racial, religious, or gay slur to use in day-to-day conversation, I think that's inappropriate. And you thinking it is okay doesn't just make it okay. Congrats on how 'progressive' you and your friends feel, but I don't think the world needs to be told "it's okay to call people sluts!" when 'slut' is still used to degrade, defame and disparage women.
- dru's troubled soul:
- I was addressing the issue of "reclaiming" the word, not the empowerment of it.
I don't think it's fair for someone who isn't in my group of friends (no offense) to decide what is appropriate or inappropriate for me to say to my friends. The way a person takes something, the audience it is delivered to, and the intent of the original statement all have a lot to do with whether or not something is appropriate.
I'm not saying I should walk up to a stranger and speak that way, but I think it's pretty preachy for someone to tell me that talking to my friends in a certain way is inappropriate. I'm not talking to them, talking to a public forum, and it doesn't effect them.
May 14th, 2013 at 02:56am