jack@hp-dcde.UUCP (06/10/84)
shark!hutch says:
By the way, "slut" merely means sloppy person. It is only sexist usage
that resulted in it's coming to be a synonym for "female whore". So,
you are not quite correct in asserting that she looks like a slut; she
was quite neat and tidy in her attire, even though it showed more flesh
than you are used to seeing.
Go ask some long-time speakers of English what "slut" means. Will they say
"sloppy person"? No, they will say "woman of loose morals" or some such thing.
The ancient history of the word is not relevant, the current usage is.
Hence, Yehoyaqim used the word properly.
We can debate about whether MJ dressed in a sexually enticing manner,
but that's another issue altogether from the meaning of "slut".
-Jack Applin
{hplabs,csu-cs,hp-pcd,nwuxd}!hp-dcd!jackmartillo@ihuxt.UUCP (Yehoyaqim Martillo) (06/23/84)
>[Mary Jane Watson] always seemed to have a pretty face and nice figure, >and dressed to show it off without looking at all cheap or >flagrant. In 256, Mary Jane dresses like a slut (especially on page 16) or are my ideas about how women dress totally atavistic. -- Yehoyaqim Shemtob Martillo (An Equal Opportunity Offender)
hutch@shark.UUCP (06/25/84)
<Howcome those skintight suits are all empty at the groin?> | >[Mary Jane Watson] always seemed to have a pretty face and nice figure, | >and dressed to show it off without looking at all cheap or | >flagrant. | | In 256, Mary Jane dresses like a slut (especially on page 16) or are my | ideas about how women dress totally atavistic. | -- | | Yehoyaqim Shemtob Martillo Yes, I'm afraid they are. You already demonstrated this in the net.women fiasco. I imagine it gets hard to filter this ethnocentric prejudice before you speak to anyone in America. (This is actual sympathy, not sarcasm.) By the way, "slut" merely means sloppy person. It is only sexist usage that resulted in it's coming to be a synonym for "female whore". So, you are not quite correct in asserting that she looks like a slut; she was quite neat and tidy in her attire, even though it showed more flesh than you are used to seeing. Hutch
moriarty@fluke.UUCP (06/28/84)
>By the way, "slut" merely means sloppy person. It is only sexist usage that >resulted in it's coming to be a synonym for "female whore". So, you are >not quite correct in asserting that she looks like a slut; she was quite >neat and tidy in her attire, even though it showed more flesh than you are >used to seeing. Hmm.... "Jeff Meyer, Slut at Large!" If the foo shits,...... "Nick! Heath! Jarrad! There's a fire in the barn!" Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer UUCP: {princeton,ulysses}!allegra -\ {decwrl,qubix}!sun -\ {akgua,gatech,harpo,purdue,uf-crgl}!sb1 -\ {cornell,decvax,ihnp4,sdcsvax,tektronix,utcsrgv}!uw-beaver -- fluke!moriarty {hplabs,megatest,nbires}!lbl-csam -/ {microsoft,ssc-vax,telmatic,teltone,uw-vlsi} -/ ARPA (?): fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA
martillo@ihuxt.UUCP (Yehoyaqim Martillo) (06/29/84)
If I were inclined to support feminism, I would probably argue that MJ's
exhibition of flesh was just a crude exploitation of women as sex objects.
Marvel has portrayed MJ this way since long before there was a feminist
movement, and I am inclined to believe she serves as the expression of
some editor's sexual fantasy rather than as the expression of support for
feminism.
--
Yehoyaqim Shemtob Martillo
(An Equal Opportunity Offender)moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) (07/03/84)
Slut, Slut, Slut, Slut, Slut, Slut, Slut, Slut, Slut, Slut....
Somebody keep those Vikings quiet!
"You must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest WIITH... A HERRING!!"
Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
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