Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

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When discussing sexual activity, slut is used to shame gay men for taking sexual risks, such as unprotected sex or having multiple partners. To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. Montell is prepared to shock some readers as she explores the societal roles women have taken in English, particularly when it comes to the seedy underbelly of curse words. As a pop linguist,Amanda's insights have been featured in Glamour, Bustle, Refinery29, Hello Giggles, and Bust Magazine.

She argued that, for black women, the word slut does not mean anything very harmful due to the history of being treated as slaves in the past.After scanning the database (British National Corpus), Cameron found that when people use female as a noun, as opposed to woman, it's often in explicitly negative contexts. Montell shows the real struggle of gender identity, where the traditional masculine role is dominant and everything else seems hard to accept or grasp. Montell does not shy away and has left the reader with a plethora of terms to use, perhaps also seeking to buck the trend of how to communicate about themselves and others, especially in moments of intimacy. the discussion rarely talks about the intersection of identities when evaluating word chloice, and broadly prescribed behaviors for all women which just seems too naive at best and ignorant and arrogant at worst. Small wonder, then, that today both men and women use the word to mean pretty much what they want it to mean, whether talking slut-shaming, slut walk, or slut-o-ween.

Welcoming the manuscript’s release last week, Steinbeck expert Susan Shillinglaw described the word “slut” as “an archival mystery”, pondering whether Steinbeck’s wife Carol might have “playfully” written it in red and then erased it, or if someone in the University of Virginia archives had defaced the manuscript. The lack of a comparably popular term for men highlights the double standard in societal expectations ( gender roles) between males and females, as negative terms for sexually promiscuous males are rare. Another theory [Klein] traces it to Celtic (compare Breton rog"haughty"); OED says, "There is no evidence of connexion with F.Ever wonder why so many people are annoyed when women talk with vocal fry or use the word like as a filler? Holy crap all these years of being told I need to speak a certain way to be taken seriously--that was all patriarchy. It has to be unexplained because it's wrong: the Montells are mistaking 'well' in "I'm well" for the adverb 'well' (he cooks well), whereas it's obviously the adjective 'well' meaning 'in good health' (he was unwell for a while but now he's well again).