My one only has Haribos and frozen vegetables. The worst thing in the world, in my view, is the ad hoc creation of a taboo without proper discussion. Do we object because the word denigrates women? Are we meant to avoid it in order to be politically correct or prudish? Are prudery and feminist orthodoxy the same thing? In , when Katharine Whitehorn wrote her famous column about sluttishness , the word had a precise meaning: sloppiness, especially of the domestic variety.
There was a brief period in the 90s when the meanings combined — it was all about the ladette then, and it was perfectly natural, obvious even, to be both promiscuous and slatternly. The constant victim-blaming — 20 years of girls being told that they can avert rape by staying sober and dressing nicely — has edged out any notion that a woman might want to go out and get drunk and sleep with a stranger of her own choosing.
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