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...confession. Women can be Janet Reno or Monica Lewinsky (for argument s sake, we ll say she s pretty). Everyone understands the concept of not pretty equals intelligent equals better than men, while pretty equals dumb equals slave to men. We categorize women into butch or airhead, prude or slut, dim-wit or smartadivisions with little gradation in between. Men, on the other hand, have the liberty of wearing pretty much anything and still having their intelligence and ability determined byasurprise!atheir intelligence and ability. The unfair smart-or-dumb distinction for women looks like it ll stick around...
There's Bonnie (Meg Ryan), the woman used by Eddie and Mickey as their own sexual welcome wagon. There's Darlene (Robin Wright Penn in a reprise of the troubled slut she portrayed in Forrest Gump and Moll Flanders; I miss The Princess Bride), the old flame passed between Eddie and Mickey who counters Eddie's infidelity with her own in mock independence. There's Phil (Chazz Palminteri), the struggling actor who drowns his artistic voice in a persistent whine about his own worth. And there's weed, Valium, fast cars, big houses, sex, sex and more...
...gender-unspecific pronouns. This construction sticks out just as much as, if not more than, the repeated use of "he." But that may be the point. People should call attention to the fact that English is sexist. The language provides dozens of negative words for a sexually active female (slut, ho, harlot) and not one for a male (stud?). It refers to groups as "you guys" when no men are present. It calls someone who presides and perfects a "master," while a "mistress" wallows in feminine immorality...
...because I knew my mother wouldn't have approved." Chandra stopped dating the boy more than a year ago and hasn't had sex since. "It would have to be someone I really cared about," she says. "I've had sex before, but I'm not a slut...
...again in 1994 and 1996, and file multiple claims that Bipin violated those orders with harassing phone calls and faxes. In one letter to the police she said that Bipin, while returning the children to her house, began "screaming many obscenities" and said, "You're a prostitute and a slut...you're going to get nothing from me." Ellen ended that letter, "My children and I are afraid of him." But while he signed agreements not to harass her, there was never an admission of guilt on his part or any criminal finding against...