I love my weekly dose of Theodore Dalyrymple: https://www.takimag.com/article/an-ill-defined-petition/ … “It is true that the English language rejoices in a large number of derogatory terms for women, but no one who has seen the center of a British town or city on a Saturday night could possibly deny the...”
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“... urgent need for terms such as sl*tt*rn, sl*t, sl*g, sl*pper, and even str*mpet. As one of my young patients put it (she was 16 at the time), “My mother says that I’m a sl*t, but I’m good at what I do.” The explanation of this large number of cognate terms to describe...”
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“... less refined members of the second sex is surely that which explains why Eskimo languages have fifty words for snow.” Reposted with censorship because I remembered you can get Twitter suspended for using some of the above words in their entirety. Ffs.
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