Word: epithets
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Sotomayor, Sonia •"racist" labeling of by Gingrich is amended - the proper epithet for is "racialist...
...term “cougar” cannot even claim originality as its saving grace. Feline metaphors—fox, puma, pussy—have long been applied to female sexuality. “Cougar” is merely the latest epithet in a long tradition of verbal constructs—slut, skank, whore—that construe women as sub-human sexual objects. Urban Dictionary defines the cougar in terms of the sexual stimulation that she provides to men and her lack of emotional attachment: Cougars “don’t expect you to call the next...
...first glance, the term sounds like a progressive, coquettish take on the older-woman-beds-younger-man phenomenon. Its representation of females as both claiming and controlling their own sexuality explains why women have rushed to appropriate the epithet as empowering. Inverting the tradition of the sexless spinster, the moniker acknowledges that childbirth does not exorcise a woman’s libido and affirms the sex drive of the perimenopausal...
...addiction even finds a human counterpart in the form of his obsession with the mysterious poet Alberta Lulaj, “the girl in a yellow dress.” Pilch’s memoir-like style blends black comedy, amateur psychology, and homage to Homeric epithet, like “Don Juan the Rib, in civilian life a hairdresser, and additionally, a musician.” Epithets like this one, while routine, help define the characters as much for Jerzy as they do for the reader. But as it turns out, the validity of their stories is uncertain; Jerzy...
...stranded in Apatow-land, but he ought to connect with at least some of them men in the audience. He's like 98% of American males, He's one of the vast majority of us - the ones who, under our photos in the high-school yearbook, would find the epithet "Not as funny / hip / studly / smart / wild-and-crazy as he thinks...