Word: sluts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wear revealing attire often face judgment from their peers. Lanhee J. Chen '00 comments, "[People's clothes] might say something about their preferences for how they dress, but you should not pass judgment on them. You can't automatically say because the girl dresses provocatively that she's a slut or anything." It seems many people would agree, at least in casual conversation...
...narrative of Girlfriend begins, the ghost of high school football star and self-acknowledged male slut Jared Hansen describes the day that he collapsed during the middle of a football game and then succumbed to a fatal struggle with leukemia. He then hands the narrative reins over to his living friend Richard Doorland, who introduces Coupland's latest array of anti-heroes: a tight circle of high school seniors of the late 1970's residing in leafy Vancouver, British Columbia, (which also happens to be Coupland's place of residence). The cast of characters is eerily reminiscent...
...upset. She thought it was great that I had "lost my virginity during a fling, because there was no emotional attachment." An adult who taught health education couldn't comprehend "why such a smart girl would let something like that happen" to her. A close friend called me a slut...
...hero! When his car breaks down, Bobby is at the mercy--make that the whim--of "an ignorant, inbred, tumbleweed hick" car mechanic (good ole, evil ole Billy Bob Thornton); a slut-siren (Jennifer Lopez, reeking lubricity) who invites Bobby home and purrs, "I'm tired a hangin' drapes--now what shall we do?"; and her grizzled husband (Nick Nolte in the goat-patriarch mode perfected by John Huston), who has a business proposition for Bobby: Kill my wife, please...
...Hill" exemplifies our hypocritical stance toward virginity and sexual promiscuity. It is proper for a woman to be a virgin, but it is not desirable in a man. Our society considers a promiscuous man a stud, the picture of machismo, while a promiscuous woman is viewed as a whore, slut or harlot, the antithesis of femininity. With the help of feminist scholarship, we have come to recognize this hypocrisy and have slowly been making headway in eradicating this double standard. Our recent enlightenment demonstrates that recognition of these double standards is the first step in reversing them...