Mar 13, 2012

Why is "Slut" a Dirty Word, Asks Geoff Nunberg

From Fresh Air from WHYY, on National Public Radio

Slut: The Other Four Letter S-Word

By Geoff Nunberg

"My choice of words was not the best," Rush Limbaugh said in his apology. That's the standard formula for these things — you apologize not for what you said but for the way you said it....

In an age when it's obligatory to condemn the double standard wherever it rears its head, the disparity between "slut" and "player" is an embarrassment to the English language....

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