I can also say I forget what it’s like to get upset by being called a slut. I’ve been trying to get angry again.

I’ve been called a slut. The first time I cried; I felt like I had been irreparably broken. I began to think they were right and there was a proper place for women.

But then I stopped caring. My change in attitude partly reflects a confidence in sexual choices that hopefully comes with age, and also a realization of how inane the insult is. Slut hurts because we value chastity in women. If you agree that chastity is an outdated and oppressive virtue, then slut begins to have no teeth. The dictionary definition is almost funny: “A slovenly woman.” “A saucy girl.” Please, call me saucy.

Of course, slut still says a lot about the person who uses it, and about the society that accepts its use. Women go to colleges and graduate schools in equal numbers to men, but they will only make up 23 percent of leadership positions. Women make up over 50 percent of the workforce, but earn only 77 cents to the man’s dollar. Women can have pre-marital sex, but only if not excessively. In Constitutional Law, our class unequivocally supports racial equality, but the god-given differences between man and woman provide the rational basis for gender inequality.

Slut is an attempt to force back into place women who step out of their centuries-old role as chaste and loyal wives and mothers. What do sluts threaten? The order of human social organization that began with Adam and Eve.

Limbaugh is absolutely an asshole. Fluke-- and no woman-- should be subjected to such bigoted slurs that ... maybe we shouldnt pay for women to have sex... THAT IS NOTTHEISSUe