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...problem isn't just that Dizzee's East London accent is thick, though it is. It's that Dizzee (ne Dylan Mills), 19, speaks in a tangled local idiom in which choppah means knife, chaps are chains and sket means slut. In Britain, where most rappers still spit moldy American hip-hop cliches, Dizzee is celebrated as a rap original. (Boy in Da Corner beat out albums by Radiohead and Coldplay for the country's prestigious Mercury Prize.) But American audiences--who get Dizzee's album on Jan. 20, six months after the Brits--have a right to ask: What...
Women who don't fit stereotypes don't fare much better, says Jim Pfaus, a psychologist at Concordia University in Montreal who studies behavioral neurobiology. "What is a woman who expresses arousal in response to blatantly visual sexual cues? I hope we've moved beyond calling her a slut while calling a man who does the same a stud." But the cultural prejudice behind those labels persists, he says...
...Drug-sluts of the world, unite! Hyper-active student activist Gabby G. Crick ’05 has learned not to mix business with pleasure the hard way. She suspects her weed man of a hit and run. The morning after a late night herbal acquisition, Crick couldn’t locate her new stash and assumed her dealer swiped it, despite the 17 joint butts in her ash tray that speak to the contrary. Says Crick, “What a chauvinist thing to do—he comes to my room, sells...
...picture, phone number, and tax information on her parents’ home. Some websites lambaste her as a whore. Others gossip about everything from her emotional problems to her favorite color. One astute visitor to a cyber-forum on the subject proclaimed: “This is just another slut trying to get money out of having...
Keel defends her position on the word “slut,” drawing a parallel between sexist terms and racist terms...