The lamentation of the slut

Washington Times ^ | 7-27-06 | Suzanne Fields

[Aquinasfan]

Nothing kills my appetite faster than to be in a grocery store and see an overweight woman with bare flesh around her middle sticking out like a half-opened can of Pillsbury biscuits.

Oh yeah? Well we get a lot of overweight, middle-aged, thong-wearing, Brazilian women at our town beach on weekends. Take that.

To be fair, there's nothing like the skinny, chain-smoking, Speedo-wearing French Canadians with little beer bellies who show up on Maine beaches in the summer.

OK, I'm going to go scrub my brain now.

[Stoat]

Oh dear, get ready for the pictures!

No offense or disrespect was intended.

However, when you post an article with the word "slut" in the title, you need to expect a truckload of Paris Hilton pictures  :-)

 

[evets]

Mmmmm... the allure of the bust...

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Tom Wolfe: "There was a time when the worst ... slut ... for want of a better term ... maintained a virginal and chaste facade. Today, the most virginal and chaste undergraduate wants to create a facade of sexual experience."

That has been true for a long time. I remember my sister and friends making fun of virgins when, truth be told, several of them were still virgins. It's sad. Shame, stigma, taboo, peer pressure, etc...are part of how a group functions. So liberals who say we should "remove the stigma" are not removing a stigma, just moving it. The stigma is now on chastity, at least to a large degree in the younger set. Same principle applies to all the other areas liberals have "removed" stigmas. You cannot remove them. You only move them.

[Osage Orange]

The nerve..!!

[gogeo]

Nothing kills my appetite faster than to be in a grocery store and see an overweight woman with bare flesh around her middle sticking out like a half-opened can of Pillsbury biscuits.

They call that Muffin Top.

[PzLdr]

As we used to say in my youth, "The aura of availability". As Willie Moretti said about Virginia Hill, when asked why he pursued a relationship with her, "She looked like she'd be easy to know".

[capt. norm]

Well, no doubt your Adonis-like physique is more appealing, I'm sure.

Actually any physique that doesn't amount to a pile of shapeless cholesterol is better than what I've been seeing.

Don't need to be an "Adonis", but normal is cool with me.

I'm in my sixties and look it, but at least I don't have flab hanging all over the place and I don't have so many chins that I need a bookmark to find my face.

[JZelle]

I remember the stories about Ogunquit. Has that changed?

[BossLady]

Apparently, a litter of these young girls at a party is called a 'Muffin Jamboree'....LOL!

And, at some schools there is a 'Muffin Code'....blueberry, raspberry, banana, plastic wrap....have various meanings.....hahaha!

[Vision]

In his carefree bachelor days nothing ignited his imagination like the "allure of the slut."

Yep, there will always be a market for men to use women. Pathetic a grown woman thinks this, but what do I care about some journalist romanticizing a slut.

[JZelle]

"Need a bookmark to find your face, now that's funny right there!"

[Aquinasfan]

I remember the stories about Ogunquit. Has that changed?

My sister tells me that it's not as gay as it used to be, but I don't trust her 8-)

[Polyxene]

"...an overweight woman with bare flesh around her middle sticking out like a half-opened can of Pillsbury biscuits."

You win the "Best Mental Picture of the Day" award!!

[Polyxene]

LOL -- you are definitely on a roll!!
(Wondered the same thing myself!)

[edzo4]

they should just put all the tight little clothes in a serperate room with a skinny little doorway and if your fat ass can't fit through the door you can't buy those clothes...

[MineralMan]

My point is that there is a huge difference between some "muffin top" teenager and a grossly obese person.

Obesity is a problem. 10 or 15 pounds heavier than rail thin is not a problem.

You appear to be unwilling to accept that others look however they look. It is the girl's choice to display her bulges. Who cares?

If you're over 60, as I am, you've seen just about every variety of the human form. Get over yourself, OK?

[jw777]

that's quite a nicely trimmed clay mustache.

[oldbrowser]

Leora Tanenbaum, author of a book called "Slut! Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation," finds that the word, popular as it may be in certain lunching parties, still inflicts pain and humiliation.

It ain't easy being easy.

[Bratch]

My biggest store gripe, especially at WalMart, concerns the huge obese women who commandeer the electric ride-on shopping carts provided for handicapped and people with medical conditions like hear disease.

Pretty easy to see how these big blobs got to be that way.