No Sluts on Ricochet
Claire Berlinski, Ed. ·
March 6, 2012 at 2:24am
Rob, I don't care if everyone else is talking about it. We simply do not use that word on Ricochet. We propose to pretend this national disgrace isn't happening.
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Jan '11
Re: No Sluts on Ricochet
What, exactly, is the disgraceful element?
Is the subject taboo or the four letter word?
Mar '11
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How about if we render it as SLVT? That way we can claim it's Latin, or something...
Or maybe hussy. Or strumpet. Drab? Doxy?
I'm not sure where I got all these, but I think it's pretty safe to say that it wasn't from all the It Pays To Increase Your Word Power quizzes in Readers Digest that my grandma made me do.
Nov '11
Re: No Sluts on Ricochet
I'm trying to guess what the national disgrace is. Is it the fact that the uncouth words of a talk radio host have dominated headlines for the past several days? I mean, who wants to talk about the unemployment rate? Syria? Iran? Somalia? Iraq? Afghanistan? Surely, Rush Limbaugh calling a Leftist activist names must rank highly on the list of pressing issues the world must discuss.
Nov '11
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I'm with you, Claire, and I'm also ready to defend "reality avoidance." It's how I get through every day. I recommend, too, that one commit to memory the very handy phrase, "I'm going to pretend you didn't say that."
Jul '10
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I'll have to disagree here, Claire. The social stigma with that term is precisely why it should be used. You see the same thing now where we talk about children born out of wedlock and not bastard children. When we continually euphemise behavior, we wind up in our current predicament where there is no social stigma to behave decently. If someone is going to demand I fund their sex life with my taxes, they're going to get my opinion on their sex life, too.
Edited on March 6, 2012 at 3:58amMay '10
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Are gigolos still welcome?
Apr '11
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There's a Dan Aykroyd joke in here somewhere.
Jan '12
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Moocher.
Jul '11
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Would somebody tell me why I should care what names a shock jock calls a political operative? Or why my favorite web site and much of the Internet is obsessing over it? Seriously do we not have better things to discuss?
Dec '11
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I think the use of the words sl*t and wh*re in a non-literary context
is t-a-c-k-y.
Dec '10
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Rob Long: Sorry, I have to disagree. There's entirely too much Victorian delicacy surrounding this word. It's a rude thing to call someone, sure. But it's silly to start red-lining words that appear in Shakespeare, of all places.
And Timon of Athens:
I make no argument, nor take a stand, on Rush's -- or Ed Schulz's -- use of the word. But I submit that context here is important. Or should we print a warning on the cover of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare? · 37 minutes ago
Thanks Rob,
I've had enough of the linguistic whine. Forty years of complaining about adjectives and not a clue about the appropriateness of demanding the government force others to destroy their conscience so you can exercise your lack thereof.
Jim
Jun '10
Re: No Sluts on Ricochet
Rob Long: Sorry, I have to disagree. There's entirely too much Victorian delicacy surrounding this word. It's a rude thing to call someone, sure. But it's silly to start red-lining words that appear in Shakespeare, of all places.
And Timon of Athens:
And don't forget Timon of the jungle:
"Easy, Pumba. Not in front of the kids!"
I believe this was in response to a song about a bodily function that Chaucer spoke of.
Jun '10
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"We promise not to say 'it'."
Enjoy...and here, too.
Edited on March 6, 2012 at 4:36amFeb '12
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We were Alinsky'd.
Now let's focus on the next Breitbart we're going to inflict.
Feb '11
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I'm pretty sure Claire is just having fun with y'all. But what do I know, I'm just a skank...
Feb '11
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And just who did Tom Bowdler bowdlerize? If usage in Shakespeare provides a defense to the Code of Conduct, we shall have a very low standard indeed.
Rush should apologize to conservatives for giving liberals an easy excuse to change the subject.
Jul '10
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"Thrup'ny uprights" should be an OK term... After all, that's what the Victorians used.
(This to distinguish from, of course, the “grand horizontals.”)
Apr '11
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Oh just brilliant!
Brian Watt: "We promise not to say 'it'."
Enjoy...and here, too. · 21 minutes ago
Edited 15 minutes ago
Apr '11
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ShellGamer
Rush should apologize to conservatives for giving liberals an easy excuse to change the subject. · 2 minutes ago
I don't think this hurts the conservative cause, in fact, I think it helps.
May '10
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A few months ago, Cas Balicki got dinged by another member and the CoC for using this term in reference to a certain type of tattoo. We should try to be consistent.